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To the Friends and Patrons of Summit Lawn Poultry Yards. 

We feel as though we would like to say a few words about our poultry yards, but 
for fear the public may think us egotistical, and as we profess a reasonable amount of 
^ modesty, we prefer to make room for an article which appeared in the Western Ru- 
ral, of August. 1881. written by one of its editors, after paying our yards a visit : 

A Model Poultry Yard. — Summit Lawn Poultry Yards are located in the sub- 
urban village of Arlington Heights, twenty-two miles out of Chicago, on the Wiscon- 
sin division of the Northwestern Railroad. Here the proprietor, R. B. Mitchell, Esq., 
has located a beautiful home, and for the last three years has been raising and caring 
for his favorite fowls. We think that any one visiting these yards will have impressed 
upon them the idea that Mr. Mitchell has made a careful study of poultry raising, 
which, with his experience and business habits, enables him to know the precise ex- 
pense and receipts of his various coops. 

In this paper we shall briefly note the summer method of handling, leaving the 
winter keeping to a later notice. Summit Lawn Yards are on the very summit of the 
elevation at Arlington Heights, and embrace some live acres of smooth, rich prairie 
ground, having numerous patches of vegetation suitable for feeding the fowls. 

The large plat of all is the lawn, which is kept closely shaven, and yields a daily 
feed of tender grass eagerly devoured by the fowls The vegetables raised, named in 
order of their relative quantities, are carrots, onions, Russian sunflower and lettuce, 
all but the last being designed to furnish winter food. The old fowls now on hand 
number nearly three hundred and fifty, and the young chicks about as many more. 
The breeds raised by Mr. Mitchell are the white and brown Leghorns, light and dark 
B rah mas, black, buff and Partridge Cochins, Plymouth Rocks. S. S. Hamburgs, and 
tins season he is adding Houdans. The old birds are confined in thirty-six yards, each 
yard or pen being in the form of a ridge roof, sloping from the ground on each side to 
the top, and with vertical ends. They are about sixteen feet long by twelve feet wide, 
with an elevation of six feet. This pen is made of four large pieces of slat work 
forming the sides or roof-like shape, each piece being sixteen by four feet, and the two 
A shaped ends, in one of which is the door oC admission, in the other an opening to a 
small coop abou$ four feet square and five feet high, water-tight, and provided with 
nests and perches. Only ten or twelve fowls are confined in one of these yards. Each 
pen is so constructed that it can be easily taken apart and removed to a new location, 
or by means of one spare one, the fowls cau bs transferred to new quarters while the 
ground of the old run isdeeply spaded, thus fitting the whole for occupancy anew. 
Being made of light laths, the whole pen is cheap, while it furnishes plenty of air 
and sun to the fowls. 

Stretched across one side of the roof. Mr. Mitchell has placed a yard wide piece of 
tar paper to shade a part of the inclosure if the fowls prefer shade; and on the hot 
afternoon when our visit was made, this shade was very agreeable to tl\em. The low- 
er edge of this strip of paper being a foot from the ground, gave a nice current of air 
below. These thirty-six yards are so arranged as to form a hollow square, and the 
boy starting with his barrow of feed and passi ng round to all the fowls, finds himself 
back to his starting place with no extra steps. Such an arrangement also enables one 
to see at a glance the entire condition of all the coops and fowls. 

The feeding is done from two to six times a day, and is exceedingly liberal. Corn, 
oats, wheat, screenings, cracker dust, oil meal, lard scraps, bran. corn meal, with refuse 
from the house and offal from the meat market, are all used freely, and the high con- 
dition of the fowls, with their activity aud excellent health, show how wisely he ca- 
ters to their appetite. But in another way yet do they show the result of liberal feed- 
ings. Mr. Mitchell keeps a perfect egg record; each coop has every egg marked be- 
fore it is taken out, and when the boy comes out of the coop it is credited with the 
whole number of eggs gathered in it. This daily record is then preserved and carried 
into a book of monthly and yearly record, and thus he can tell just how many eggs 
he has had laid in any day, week, month or year, and so can tell to a certainty just 
what food has paid in his egg factory. V 

From letters he showed us we found he hauwurnished eggs to satisfied patrons 
in half the States of our Union: indeed, before our visit we had had the representa- 
tives of these yards shown to us in another State* 

Mr. Mitchell is well pleased with the egg yield he has had so far. and thinks 
he has reduced the cost of coops and keeping to the minimum for numbers and breeds 
kept, and later will be able to show similar cheap winter results. These yards are 
open to the inspection of all interested visitors a«y day of the w T eek, except Sunday, 
and Mr. Mitchell cordially invites calls. 

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Our new Poultry House is 80 feet long by 24 wide. [This plan only shows 
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The curves below the roof represent ditches, one foot deep, to carry off the water. 
Entrance is on east end of hall. This house has no floor and no sides. The 
roof commences at the ground, and rises to an elevation of H feet in the center; 
is made of one-inch common lumber, six inches wide and 14 feet long, and is 
covered with very heavy tar felt paper. The upper windows give plenty of 
sun and light to the pens on north side of hall, and the lower ones to those on 
the south side. In the west end is a window three feet square for ventilation, 
and two ventilators, sixteen inches square, in the center of the roof, at equal 
distances from each end. This plan gives the most room for the least amount 
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We extend to our patrons the right hand of fellowship, and wish you 

a prosperous year. 




[From our Circular of 1881.] 

TO THOSE WHO TAKE AN INTEREST IN CHOICE POULTRY, THIS 
CIRCULAR IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. 

We wish to improve this opportunity to thank the public and 
the poultry breeders of the Northwest for their patronage and confi- 
dence, bestowed upon us during the first year we entered the field as 
competitors, and hereby promise that our dealings in the future, as 
in the past, shall be based upon the one great, grand and broad prin- 
ciple, which has been handed down to us for many generations, and 
that is: " Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you." 
With this sentiment engraved upon our pages, we enter the field of 
1882, with the determination to do exact justice to all, and if fair 
dealing and reasonable prices will command patronage, we expect to 
receive a share. Yours respectfully, 

R B. MITCHELL. 



[From our Circular of 1881.] 

With us, the past two years have been years of labor, as well as 
pleasure. Some of our expectations have been realized and some 
have not. We have had success in some directions, while in others 
we have made failures; but, on the whole, we feel that the knowledge 
we have gained, amply pays us for the trouble and expense to which 
we have been. 

We have read all the poultry literature to which we have had 
access, and, to sum it all up in a few words, we are disappointed with 
the actual information gained from this source. There is too much 
theory and not enough practice, but this will regulate itself in due 
time. 

What we want, is, actual facts — experience — and not what some 
one has done, or what has been done with a few extra fowls, kept on 
extra rations, and produced an extra number of eggs. Such informa- 
tion is deceptive, and leads to discouragement, disappointment and 
abandonment, by many, of one of the most pleasant recreations we 
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[From our Circular of 1881.] 

DOES IT PAY TO KEEP FOWLS? 

Our one hundred fowls, twenty old and eighty pullets, have laid 
upward of eleven thousand eggs from January 1, 1880, to January 1, 
1881. [This we do not claim is a large number, but it is a fact.] Our 
income for eggs sold for hatching, together with those we sold on the 
market, including what we used ourselves for hatching, at sixty cents 
for sitting of 13, was $286.10. Deducting expenses for feeding the 
100 fowls, $70, and we have a profit of 216.10, or $2.16 per head. This 
showing is satisfactory to us, yet we expect to do better this year. 
Our attendant has a daily egg-record card at hand, and when the eggs 
are gathered, they are carefully noted down, and the card placed on 
file in the fowl house, where we can transfer the figures to our month- 
ly card. Thus, we are enabled to report the number of eggs laid every 
1 day in the year, by each variety and by each pen. 

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MAKING OUT ORDERS. 



In making out your orders for eggs or fowls, be particular, and 
write your name, postoffice address, county and State, very plainly, so 
that no errors may occur. 



STOCK. 



Our stock now comprises eighteen varieties, and between six and 
seven hundred fowls. 

Be particular to describe exactly what you want, and we will 
please you if we can, otherwise will advise you by return mail. 



POULTRY RAISINC. 

The great secret in poultry raising is, to get strains that are good 
layers, and then keep them in health, so they will lay the year round. 
This we have attained, and this is the one great secret of our success 
and large profits. We watch our fowls very closely, and if we find 
any sterile ones, we chop their heads off and make them into a pie, 
and by being always vigilant, we save the expense of feeding non-lay- 
ing fowls, besides always breeding from the best layers, we raise the 
standard for laying to the highest point attainable. 

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Of all the fowls we have kept as layers, the Brown Leghorns are 
the banner breed. Our other varieties have done well, and another 
year may excel the Brown Leghorns. If we were asked which variety 
we liked the best, we would not be able to answer the question to our 
satisfaction, as each kind has its good qualities either in size, plum- 
age, or general make-up, and we would not discourage the keeping of 
any breed until we have had more experience with the different va- 
rieties. 



REMITTANCES. 



May be made by registered letter, postoffice order, draft on 
Chicago, or in one, two or three cent postage stamps. 



DO NOT RECEIVE. 

We cannot receive visitors to our yards on Sunday under any 
circumstances. Six days in the week we are ready for business, and 
shall be pleased to exhibit our stock to those who may call. 



SUCCESS IN HATCHING. 

We will esteem it a favor if those who receive eggs from us will 
please report. their success in hatching. 



GUARANTEE. 



We guarantee everything 'we sell as represented, or the money 
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REPORT FOR I88L 

During the year of 1881, our average number of laying fowls has 
been 230. The extreme cold winter of 1880 and 1881, and the want 
of room to properly house our fowls, prevented them from laying as 
many eggs as they otherwise would have done, could we have given 
them more commodious quarters. But, take the season through, we 
have no cause for complaint, but rather congratulate ourselves on the 
success we have met with, as the following statement will show : 

Some breeders might be averse to making- a public statement of their business, butasyet 
we can see no impropriety in so doing, and as keeping- poultry is a mooted question— whether 
or not there is any money in it— we deem it advisable to furnish all the information we can 
on the subject, from actual facts and experience, for the benefit of those who anticipate en- 
tering into it. Does it pay to keep fowls? Our two hundred and thirty fowls have, in eight 
months, laid 21,143 eggs. These 21,143 eggs we sold, less 500 we used, for setting, 

For $1,132.20 

• Fowls sold during the eightmonths 152.20 

Total cash receipts $1,284.40 

EXPENSES. 

Feed of all kinds $ 180.00 

Boy eight months at $7.00 per month 56 00 

$236.00 

Leaving us as net cash receipts $1,048.40 

We now have on hand, to be added to this income, 200 very choice chickens, for which we 
get from two to four and five dollars each. But to close up the report, we will estimate them 
at $1.50 each, making $300. 00, leaving us a net profit of $1,348. 40, for eight months. Let us ask, 
who can beat this with a hundred acre farm? 




ECCS FOR HATCHING. 

We put the prices of eggs for hatching at the very lowest possi- 
ble price consistent, for good stock, considering the time, trouble and 
expense of keeping and breeding them pure. We pack in light baskets, 
closely covered with strong cloth, plainly marked and labeled "Eggs 
for Hatching," and have shipped them the past year as far as Texas, 
Montana, Colorado and Nebraska, and had them hatch as well as in 
our own yards. 

We do not guarantee to duplicate orders when eggs fail to hatch 
to suit purchaser, for nine times out of ten the fault is owing to the 
careless manner and the improper places in which the eggs were set; 
but in every instance where parties are not satisfied with their hatch, 
if they will notify us of the circumstances, we will consider the case, 
and act honorably in the matter. No eggs sent out but those that are 
fresh and from the same pens that we breed from. 



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Our fowls have enjoyed excellent health during the year 1881, as 
any one would know w T ho visited our yards and saw their bright red 
combs and active movements. We have had more business than we 
could attend to promptly, and, of course, some of our customers have 
had to wait an unusual length of time to have their orders filled, 
which was very unpleasant for us and very annoying to them. We 
had so many orders we could not fill them, and, in fact, returned and 
carried over to be filled in 1882, over fifty orders. We believe we 
have the best lot of customers in the country; they have been ex- 
tremely patient, uniformly courteous and obliging, and very gentle- 
manly in their correspondence. Many of them were not satisfied to 
order only once, but ordered the second, third and fourth times. We 
appreciate all our customers, and shall always endeavor to give them 
value received; and if any of them entertain fancied grievances, we 
shall be most happy to hear and correct them. 



SHIPPING FOWLS. 



In shipping fowls, we coop as light as possible, consistent with 
strength, and put in drinking and feeding cups, and also suspend from 
the top of the coop a small bag of corn, from which they can be fed 
during their journey, no matter what the distance may be. 



HOW TO GET EGGS FREE. 



Any person who will act as agent for us, and canvass his town or 
village, and secure orders so as to send to us at one time for ten sit- 
tings or more, shall be entitled to one sitting of eggs, from any of 
our pens. 



HOW TO FEED YOUNG CHICKENS. 

We never had better success in raising chickens than during the 
past year. Good health seemed to pervade the whole flock. They 
were fed on hard-boiled eggs and stale bread, the first two weeks after 
hatching, and then we commenced to give them good, sound wheat, and 
after the third week we discontinued the egg and bread diet altogether, 
and gave them all the wheat they could eat, and several acres range, 
and the result was, we lost only two out of each hundred. 



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ONION TOPS FOR FOWLS. 




We fed our fowls for fifty days in succession, this Fall, ten quarts 
of green onion tops a day, cut in lengths of \ to \ inches. Our stock 
of onion tops then gave out, or we would have continued the feed for 
an indeiinite period. Green food is necessary for laying fowls, and if 
they don't have it the egg basket will not be as well filled, nor the 
profits so large. 



CHOLERA. 

We have not had a case of cholera in our poultry yard in two 
years, while our neighbors have lost seventy-five per cent of their 
flocks during the same time with cholera. We guard against it by us- 
ing a medicine of our own compounding, and .which we shall soon 
offer to the public. 



POSTAGE. 

In writing to a poultryman, don't forget to enclose a three-cent 
stamp, for a reply. This may seem a small matter to put in print, but 
if you will reflect a moment and consider, that perhaps twenty or 
thirty others may be writing to the same person as you are, and each 
expecting a reply, possibly, you will realize that the draft upon one 
person is very heavy, whereas, if it was divided between all, it would 
be but three cents each, but from sixty to ninety cents per day for the 
one. It is no unusual thing for us to receive thirty letters a day, and 
many of them asking questions that wholly concern the writer, and of 
no interest to us whatever; still we are willing to give our time, paper 
and envelopes, but please don't forget the three-cent stamp. 



THE SUCCESSFUL POULTERER 



Is a man of pluck, with his sleeves rolled up, and working to make it 



come out right. 



THE UNSUCCESSFUL POULTERER 

Is simply a man, with his hands in his pockets, and a pipe in his 
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PURE-BRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, 

As there lias been much disappointment about Plymouth Rocks not breed- 
ing yellow legs and beaks, and sometimes showing feathers on their legs, and 
giving great dissatisfaction, w T hen eggs costing from four to five dollars per 
sitting, from the best breeders in the country, hatched out such birds, I feel it 
a duty I owe to myself and the public generally, to copy from the Poultry 
Journal of August, 1881, an article written by its editor, who is thoroughly 
posted on Plymouth Rocks, and sincerely hope this article will settle all dis- 
putes in the future on the Plymouth Rock question. 

[From the Poultry Journal of August, 1881.] 
Editor Poultry Journal: 

I would like to ask, through your Journal, whether the pure-bred Ply- 
mouth Rock should ever have any leg feathers. I sent this spring to one of the 
most noted Plymouth Rock breeders in the West, and paid him $4.00 for a sit- 
ting of eggs, from which, of course, I expected something past common ; but 
what was my surprise to find that out of the four chicks that hatched, three of 
them had very distinct leg feathers down to the toes. Of course I was dis- 
gusted, and was glad that none of them lived, as I already had a great deaj 
better myself. But I would like to know if I am right in my opinion that there 
should be no suspicion of leg feathers in pure-bred Plymouth Rocks? 

Yours truly, Andrew H. R. 

Reply: — Yes; you are right in your opinion that there should be no sus- 
picion of feathers on the legs of pure-bred Plymouth Rocks, but the best and 
purest strains in the world will sometimes show feathers on the legs of their 
chicks. The P. Rock has feather leg blood in its composition, and it will take 
years yet of careful breeding to eradicate it so that it will not sometimes ap- 
pear in the chicks. We know from our personal observation that feathers will 
come on the legs of Plymouth Rock chicks, no matter how carefully the breed- 
ing stock may be mated nor by whom ; and we know that the best and most 
careful P. Rock breeders in the country have trouble of this kind, and while it 
is very annoying, and causes much hard feeling against them by purchasers, it 
is a thing that no human foresight or skill in mating can entirely prevent, at 
present ; for, as before stated, it is in the blood, and is liable to crop out where 
least expected, and from fowls that do not show a trace of leg-feather, and 
whose parents have never shown it. Therefore, when Plymouth Rock chicks 
show traces of leg-feather, it is of itself no evidence of impurity of blood, or 
carelessness of the breeder who sold the fowls or eggs, but must be put down to 
the true cause as indicated above, and while it is annoying, and to the ama- 
teur or new beginners in breeding P. Rocks rather discouraging to have chicks 
come with feathers or traces of them on the legs, we advise them not to kill the 
chicks nor be in a hurry to blame the breeder ; for these chicken feathers fre- 
quently wear oft', or in some way disappear, and the chick that caused such 
disgust when it was hatched turns out a prize-winner when matured. Still, we 
do not advise any one to breed a cock that ever showed the least sign of leg- 
feather, nor to use one a second season that shows in his progeny, for if care 
is taken to use only clean yellow-legged males, in a few years more P. Rocks 
will breed as true in every respect as any other breed of pure-bred fowls. Some 
breeders claim they do so now ; but, while admiring their enthusiasm for this 
excellent fowl, we do not agree with them, and the fact that P. Rock chicks 
from even the best breeders, and from the highest scoring birds, will come with 
feathered legs, and of all shades of color from nearly white to black, we sub- 
mit that there is yet much room for improvement before the Plymouth Rock 
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PRIZES. 

"\Ye are sometimes asked why we do not exhibit at the poultry- 
shows and fairs. 

One reason is, because we are extensively engaged in other busi- 
ness and cannot spare the time;> another is, it does not pay financially, 
and a third is, because we have been in the business but three years, 
and we think it advisable to wait until we are fully prepared, and then 
we propose to carry off our share of the ribbons. 

Eight here let us whisper a few words in your ears, but please 
don't tell your neighbors about it. A friend of ours was going to ex- 
hibit some fowls at the fairs (fall of 1881), and as he did not have as 
many as he desired, to make a good display, he applied to us for the 
loan of a few birds for a short time. We loaned him four pairs, and 
the result was, our eight birds won twenty-one premiums. A poultry- 
man, high in authority on poultry matters, says it was very, very 
naughty for us to do so. Our only reply to him is: "They all do it." 



TO BEGINNERS. 

The first thing to be considered in entering the poultry business 
is, the quality of stock. 

It is well to be economical in commencing the business, but my 
advice is not to kill the fowl that lays the " golden egg" by purchas- 
ing stock of inferior quality, for just as sure as you fill your pens 
with inferior birds, it will put a stigma on you* yards that you cannot 
recover from in several years. 

Therefore, I say buy the best. To be sure, it will cost you more 
at the outset, and you may not be able to get as many varieties as you 
desire to commence with, but you had better spend what funds you 
intend to invest in one variety of good birds, than to buy three or 
four kinds of inferior quality with the same money. There are 
enough inferior birds and breeders now scattered throughout the 
country, and no one should attempt to go into the poultry business 
unless he has determined to be at the head of his profession. There- 
fore, I advise all to take the first right step, the second will be much 
easier, and continue in this direction, and success will be sure to 
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IS OUR TiNIE WHOLLY OCCUPIED IN CARING FOR THE 

FOWLS? 

Wo answer, No. We have an extensive business in Chicago, 
which demands our daily attention. We leave "Summit Lawn" in 
the morning at from seven to eight o'clock, and return at six in the 
evening. Our daily custom is to visit our poultry yards early in the 
morning and examine very closely, and then give instructions to the 
party in charge. After our return at night we again visit the poultry, 
and make another examination. By this personal supervision we 
know the exact condition of our fowls at all times. 



OUR NEW POULTRY HOUSE. 

Almost any person, if he has money enough, can build a good 
poultry house; but what is wanted by ihe masses is a cheap, practical | 
poultry house, such as parties of limited means can afford to build, 
and have it warm, convenient and economical— no waste room in it— 
and one that any ordinary person can put up without the aid of a car- 
penter, and one in which a large number of fowls can be taken care 
of in a very short time. We have examined all the plans we could 
find, but none of them seemed to answer the purpose according to 
our ideas, and Ave determined to depart from all rules of architecture, 
and put up one that we thought would have all the above qualities 
combined, and the result is we have a house 80 feet long by 24 feet 
wide, and the lumber and materials cost only eighty dollars. It was 
put up by ourselves at odd spells, with the assistance of a day labor- 
er, in eighty hours. 

It will winter two to three hundred fowls nicely, and they can be 
taken care of with very little time and labor. A poultry house 12x24 
feet, can be put up by almost any one in a couple of days, and the 
cost, about sixteen dollars, is so moderate that no one who pretends 
to keep fowls need be without a good and comfortable fowl-house, or 
complain of its expense. 



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Golden Bearded Polish. 

We have added to our stock since this catalogue was com- 
menced a choice pen of Golden Bearded Polish fowls. They 
very much resemble the Silver Bearded, only their color is black 
mtid gold. The remarks we have made about the Silver Bearded 
Polish will apply to the Golden Bearded. 

Eggs per sitting of 13, $2,00. 

Ply mouth Rocks. 

We have mated up one pen of extra choice Plymouth Rocks. 
Mvery bird is exceedingly choice, and will score as high as any 
pen in America. They are as near perfect as bird can be. I 
would not sell them for $15.00 each. I can share only a few sit- 
tings of eggs from this pen. Price, $4.00 for 13. 

Egg-Baskets. 

/ can supply egg baskets at the following prices : From one 
to two sittings, 90 cents per dozen; from three to five sittings, 
$1.00 per dozen. 

Chromos of Fowls in This Catalogue. 

/ can furnish a beautiful chromo of almost every variety 
for 25 cents each. 

Bronze Turkey Eggs. 

Bronze Turkey eggs, from choice stock, 40 cents each. 




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ARRANGEMENTS FOR 1882. 



Our experience in 1881 convinces us that we need to enlarge our 
yard and increase our facilities and number of fowls very materially. 
This we have done, and we are happy to announce that we shall com- 
mence the year 1882 with eighteen varieties, and nearly treble the 
numbers we had last season. We have purchased a good many birds 
of the very best strains in the country, and paid such exorbitant 
prices for them that we are actually ashamed to let the public know 
what idiots we have made of ourselves, but we go on the principle, 
that the best is the cheapest, and Summit Lawn Poultry Yards shall 
never be guilty of stocking with anything but the very best; there- 
fore, we solicit your patronage, as we are fully prepared — as we think 
— to meet all demands for eggs and fowls promptly, and will use our 
best endeavors to please in every instance. 



How the Name of Summit Lawn Originated. 




Arlington Heights is 22 miles from Chicago, on the Chicago and 
Northwestern Railroad; 60 minutes ride from Chicago. The Depot 
is 190 feet above Lake Michigan. Summit Lawn Poultry Yards are 
due north from the Depot, about seven blocks, and at an elevation of 
about fifty feet above the R. R. track. Here the ground is the highest 
for miles around, and, from this fact, originated the word " Summit." 
Our residence occupies the center of a two-acre block, with streets on 
three sides. Sloping from all four sides of the house is a beautiful 
lawn interspersed with evergreen, shade and ornamental trees, walks, 
etc. The beauty of this Lawn, together with its elevation, suggested 
the somewhat poetical name of " Summit Lawn." From this lawn of 
two acres, the tender grass is cut daily, from April to October, with a 
lawn mower, and fed to the fowls. 



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Is one of those diseases that comes upon the poultry man unawares. 
It makes its appearance all of a sudden, and his fowls begin to droop, 
pine away and die, one after another, until he is forced to think he is 
going to lose all the choice fowls he has taken so much pains to rear. 
It makes him sick at heart to see his best and choicest pets fall vic- 
tims to this fearful scourge, and yet he knows of nothing he can do to 
save them. 

He has been to great expense to get choice birds, has erected a 
nice poultry house, has fed them well, and now his only reward seems 
to be the loss of his entire flock. What disappointment, for he had 
looked forward to the time when he would have ever so many little 
ehicks to feed and care for, to the many happy hours he would enjoy 
with them, and in seeing them chase the bugs and grasshoppers across 
the lawn; but the cholera has come, and come to stay, as long as there 
is a victim left. He casts his eye toward his now vacant poultry house 
in disgust, and retires from the field as a disappointed fancier and 
breeder. The above is the experience in hundreds of cases every year. 

We doubt if what causes cholera has ever been proven to the sat- 
isfaction of the public generally. Some ascribe it to keeping too many 
together in a limited space, others to stagnant water, and still others 
to improper food, etc. We will not attempt to say what is the cause > 
but we will say that cholera carries off thousands every year, and 
blights the prospects of hundreds of those who would be glad to raise 
poultry if it was not for this fearful malady. Now the question comes 
up, is there anything that will prevent and cure cholera? W T e are re- 
ceiving letters every week, asking us if we have cholera in our yards, 
and further saying, "My fowls are all dying with cholera; what shall 
I do for them?" 

On a page elsewhere we say we have not had a case of cholera in 
our yards in two years, while our neighbors have lost seventy-five per 
cent of their flocks during the same time with cholera. We give our 
fowls once a week — and of tener if ' actually diseased — a medicine of 
our own compounding, mixed in their morning mash, and to this alone 
we attribute the non-appearance of the disease in our yards. This 
medicine is composed of ingredients, some of which cannot be ob- 
tained in one place in fifty throughout the country, and if we should 
publish the receipt to the world, they would £>e no better off on this 
very account. Therefore, we have concluded to properly compound 
and offer it to the public as a preventive and cure for cholera, and at 
such prices that all who keep fowls can afford to feed it to their 
flocks. 



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per lb. 50c. 
45c 
40c. 



CHOLERA PREVENTIVE AND CURE. 

PRICES: 

In 2-lb. Packages, prepaid . - 

In5-lb. " " - 

InlO-lb. " " 

DIRECTIONS: 

For 20 fowls, dissolve two ounces of the powder in one-half pint 
of hot water, then stir in one pint of finely ground corn meal. If it 
should be too dry and crumbly, add just a little more water, mix, and 
feed warm with the morning meal. 

Feed once a week as a preventive. 

Feed two or three times if actually diseased. 

For a greater or less number, use the same proportions. 



ECC RECORD CARD. 



We are getting up a complete egg record card, and no poultry- 
man should be without one. It is large enough to keep the daily re- 
cord of twenty varieties, and it is a satisfaction to know how many 
eggs your hens lay during the year, and which are the best layers. 



ROUP. 



Eoup is one of the worst enemies the poultryman has to contend 
with It is brought on by confining fowls in damp quarters; it first 
makes its appearance as a cold in the head, and shows its existence by 
a watery and frothy appearance in the eye. If it is now taken m 
hand and attended to properly, it is easily cured, but if allowed to 
run a few days it may be too late, as the head swells terribly; first 
one eye swells shut, and then the other, and the bird soon starves to 

Now for the cure. As soon as you discover the watery eye, take 
the fowl and place him in a box 3x4 feet long, and 3 feet deep; pro- 
cure an oil stove and put in the box, then put a lath partition between 
the stove and the fowls, cover the front of the box within two inches 
of the top with cheap cotton cloth, leaving the two-inch space open 
for ventilation; now light your stove, give plenty of bread soaked in 
milk, and pure water to drink, and in a few days the fowl is as well 
as ever. Keep the box warm night and day, say about eighty degrees. 
If you have no oil stove get one; it will save you several times its 
cost; or put the fowl near a stove in a smaller box, where the temper- 
ature is about eighty degrees. 



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WHICH ARE THE BEST FOWLS FOR FARMERS? 

That depends on your own fancy. By all means get the variety 
that pleases you best, and then you will be likely to give them the 
best of care. All varieties will lay well if properly housed and fed. 
There is not so much difference in the breed you keep, as there is in 
the care you give them. Therefore, we advise you to get the variety 
you fancy most, and then take good care of them, and you will be 
amply paid for your trouble and expense. 




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We are often asked which fowls are the best winter layers. We 
can only answer this question by stating that during the present win- 
ter, from November 1 st ( the time that our fowls were housed, ) until 
this date, Feb. 15th, 1882, our Partridge Cochins proved the best lay- 
ers, Light Brahmas next, Dark Brahmas next, and Plymouth Piocks 
next. 



To keep large combed fowls irom freezing their combs in cold 
weather: For a dozen fowls, make a box eight feet long, three feet 
wide, and three feet deep, out of matched lumber; put a perch in the 
center, and leave a hole in one end, just large enough for the fowls to 
crawl in. Place this box in the barn, out of draft of the doors, and 
the Avarmth from their bodies will keep their combs from freezing. 



Our poultry house is equipped with a good well and pump, corn 
sheller, vegetable grinder or cutter, a Wilson mill for grinding shells, 
bones, etc., and a fifty-gallon kettle to heat their morning mash or 
feed in, also a furnace for heating purposes. 



The cuts in this catalogue fairly represent our poultry. The orig- 
inal cuts in this catalogue cost over $200. We can furnish any of the 
cuts in this book at a reasonable price. 




If parties who ask if eggs can be shipped a distance and hatch 
well, will please read our testimonials, their questions will be an- 
swered. 



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WEIGHT PER BUSHEL OF GRAIN, ETC. 



The following Table shows the number of pounds per bushel re- 
quired, by law or custom, in the sale of articles specified, in the several 
States of the Union. (Official). 



States. 



Maine 

N. Hampshire . . 

Vermont 

Massachusetts: . 
Connecticut — 

New York 

New Jersey 
Pennsylvania. . . 

Delaware 

Maryland 

Dist. Columbia, 

Virginia 

West Virginia. , 
North Carolina 
SouthCarolina. , 

Georgia 

Louisiana 

Arkansas 

Tennessee 
Kentucky 

Ohio. 

Michigan 

Indiana 

Illinois 

Wisconsin 
Minnesota .... 

Iowa , 

Missouri 

Kansas 

Nebraska 

California .... 
Oregon 






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48 

48 
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48 
48 
45 

48 
50 

48 



48 
47 

48 
48 
48 
48 
40 
32 
48 
48 
48 
48 
48 
48 
48 
48 
48 
48 
48 
50 
48 
50 



48 
48 
48 
52 
50 
56 



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50 
52 
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50 
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RATES OF POSTAGE. 




Postal Cards, 1 cent each, go without further charge to all parts 
of the United States and Canada, with an additional one-cent stamp 
they go to all parts of Europe. 

All Letters, to all parts of {lie United States and Canada, 3 
cents per half ounce. 

Local, or "drop" Letters, that is, for the city or town where 
deposited, 2 cents if delivered by carriers, and 1 cent where there is 
no carrier system. 

Newspapers, daily, semi-weekly, tri-weekly and weeklies, regu- 
larly issued and sent to regular subscribers, 2 cents per pound, pay- 
able at the office of publication; newspapers and magazines published 
less frequently than once a week, 2 cents per pound. 

Transient Newspapers, Magazines, Pamphlets, Books (printed), 
Calendars, Catalogues, Corrected Proofs, Hand-bills, Maps (litho- 
graphed or engraved), Music (printed sheet), Posters, Proof-sheets 
and Prospectuses, 1 cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof. All 
other miscellaneous matter, including unsealed Circulars, Blank 
Books, Book Manuscripts, Photographs, etc., and also Seeds, Cuttings, 
Bulbs and Boots, and Merchandise, not exceeding four pounds in 
weight, 1 cent for each ounce or fraction thereof. 

The following are the postal rates with Europe. The rates for 
letters are for the the half-ounce or fraction thereof, and those for 
newspapers for four ounces or fraction thereof: — - 

To Great Britain and Ireland, France, Spain, all parts of Ger- 
many, including Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, Nor- 
way, Sweden, Turkey (European and Asiatic), Egypt, letters 5 cents, 
newspapers 2 cents. 

For Asiatic countries, the half-ounce limit for letters, and the four 
ounces for newspapers, still holding good, the rates are: — 

To Australia, letters, via San Francisco ( except to New South 




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RATES OF POSTACE Continued. 




Wales), 5 cents, via Southampton 15 cents, via Brindisi 19 cents; 
newspapers, via San Francisco 2 cents, via Southampton 4 cents, via 
Brindisi 6 cents; China, letters, via San Francisco 5 cents, via South- 
ampton 11 cents, via Brindisi 15 cents; newspapers, 2, 4 and 6 cents, 
by the respective routes; British India, Italian mail, letters 5 cents, 
newspapers 2 cents ; Japan, letters, via San -Francisco 5 cents, news- 
papers 2 cents. 



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U. S. MONEY ORDERS. 

Money Order Post Offices are established in all the larg^ 
cities and towns, at which Orders can be obtained upon any other of- 
fice, at the following rates of commission: 



On Orders not exceeding $15, 
Over $15 " " $30, - 

" $30 " ; ' $40, 

" $40 " '" $50, - 



10 cents. 
15 « 
20 " 
25 « 



When a larger sum than fifty dollars is required, additional Or- 
ders to make it up must be obtained. 



We wish to call the attention of our readers to pages on business law. 
The information of which is worth to every farmer and poultryman 
at least ten times the cost of this Catalogue. They will be found 
useful many times during the year, and can be relied on. Our Cal- 
endar is also worthy of notice, and will be found useful to all into 
whose hands it may fall. 



Every one who keeps fowls, needs some descriptive work on 
Poultry. "Wright's" we consider the best, and is the one we consult. 
The publishers' price is $2.00. If any of our friends or customers 
want a copy, and will enclose us the price (2.00), we will purchase 
and forward the same, postpaid. 



— ARLINGTON HEIGHTS. IIX.— 






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BUSINESS LAW IN DAILY USE. 




The following compilation of business law contains the essence 
of a large amount of legal verbiage : 

If a note is lost or stolen, it does not release the maker ; he must 
pay it, if the consideration for which it was given, and the amount 
can be proven. 

Notes bear interest only when so stated 

Principals are responsible for the acts of their agents. 

Each individual in a partnership is responsible for the whole 
amount of the debts of the firm, except in cases of special partnership. 

Ignorance of the law excuses no one. 

The law compels no one to do impossibilities. 

An agreement without consideration is void. 

A note made on Sunday is void. 

Contracts made on Sunday cannot be enforced. 

A note by a minor is void. 

A contract made with a minor is void. 

A contract made with a lunatic is void. 

A note obtained by fraud, or from a person in a state of intoxica- 
tion, cannot be collected 

It is a fraud to conceal a fraud. 

Signatures made with a lead pencil are good in law. 

A receipt for money is not always conclusive. 

The acts of one partner bind all the rest. 

"Value received " is usually written in a note, a,nd should be, but 
is not necessary. If not written it is presumed by the law, or may be 
supplied by proof. 

The maker of an "accommodation" bill or note (one for which he 
has received no consideration, having lent his name or credit for the 
accommodation of the holder) is not bound to the person accommo- 
dated, but is bound to all other parties, precisely as if there was a 
good consideration. 



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BUSINESS LAW— Continued. 
No consideration is sufficient in law if it be illegal in its nature. 
Checks or drafts must be presented for payment without unrea- 
sonable delay. 

Checks or drafts should be presented during business hours, but 
in this country, except in the case of banks, the time extends through 
the day and evening. 

If the drawee of a check or draft has changed his residence, the 
holder must use due or reasonable diligence to find him. 

If one who holds a check as payee or otherwise, transfers it to 
another, he has a right to insist that the check be presented that day, 
or, at farthest, on the day following. 

A note indorsed in blank (the name of the indorser only written) 
is transferable by delivery, the same as if made payable to bearer. 

If the time of payment of a note is not inserted, it is held pay- 
able on demand 

The time of payment of a note must not depend upon a contin- 
gency. The promise must be absolute. 

A bill may be written upon any paper, or substitute for it, either 
with ink or pencil. 

The payee should be distinctly named in the note, unless it is 
payable to bearer 

An indorsee has a right of action against all whose names were 
on the bill when he received it. 

If the letter containing a protest of non-payment be put into 
the postoffice, any miscarriage does not affect the party giving notice. 

Notice of protest may be sent either to the place of business or 
of residence of the party notified. 

The holder of a note may give notice of protest either to all the 
previous indorsers or only to one of them; in case of the latter he 
must select the last indorser, and the last must give notice to the last 
before him, and -so on. Each indorser must send notice the same day 
or the day following. Neither Sunday or legal holiday is to be counted 
in reckoning the time in which notice is to be given. 

The loss of a bill or note is not sufficient excuse for not giving 
notice of protest. 

If two or more persons as partners are jointly liable on a note or 
bill, due notice to one of them is sufficient. 



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BUSINESS LAW— Continued. 

If a note or bill is transferred as security, or even as payment of 
a pre-existing debt, the debt revives if the bill or note be dishonored. 

An indorsement may be written on the face or back. 

An indorser may prevent his own liability to be sued by writing 
"without recourse," or similar words. 

All claims which do not rest upon a seal or judgment, must be 
sued within six years from the time when they arise. 

Part payment of a debt which has passed the time of statutory 
limitation revives the whole debt, and the claim holds good for another 
period of six years from the date of such partial payment. 

A verbal promise to pay, made without conditions, is generally 
held as sufficient to revive a claim otherwise shut out by the law of 
limitation. 

If, when a debt is due, the debtor is out of the State, the " six 
years" do not begin to run until he returns. If he afterward leave 
the State, the time forward counts the same as if he remained in the 
State. 

An oral agreement must be proved by evidence. A written agree- 
ment proves itself. The law prefers written to oral evidence because 
of its precision. 

No evidence may be introduced to contradict or vary a written 
contract; but it maybe received in order to explain it, when such 
contract is in need of explanation. 



We trust our readers will appreciate our efforts in trying to con- 
dense into small space the ordinary business laws of the country, 
which are in use almost daily all over the land. Most people in bus- 
iness frequently have occasion to consult some attorney on questions 
that, perhaps, the above rules will answer. If so, our object is attain- 
ed; you have gained some information, and saved at least one dollar, 
or ten times the cost of this Catalogue. 



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TO OUR FRIENDS. PATRONS AND THE PUBLIC. 




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Summit Lawn Poultry Yards have grown to be quite an insti- 
tution. 

During 1882 we have received as many as fifty-six letters in a 
day; a great many days, forty; and it is very unusual for us not to 
receive from twenty-five to thirty-five. 

CIRCULAR. 

The demand for our Circular for 1882 was almost unprecedented; 
our first edition of 2,000 copies was soon exhausted, and we were 
compelled to issue a sfcoiid edition. Probably no poultry catalogue 
ever published has called forth so many favorable criticisms as the 
one issued by us *or 1882. 

During the year we have received over twenty-three hundred ap- 
plications by letter for our Illustrated Catalogue. 

BUSINESS. 

Our business has grown to such gigantic proportions that we 
have customers and correspondents in every State and Territory in 
the United States ; also in Mexico and the British Possessions. 

SHIPMENTS. 

As a specimen of our shipments, we will mention that one day in 
November last we shipped fowls to Kansas. Nevada, Florida, and 
Ohio. 

ORDERS. 

During the year 1882, we received and filled over six hundred 
orders for eggs and fowls, besides many orders for both which we 
could not fill 



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STOCK. 

Our stock Has been in great demand, and as a general thing has 
given satisfaction. 

In some cases where we have sent out low-priced birds, the par- 
ties were dissatisfied, as they expected to receive a five-dollar bird for 
one-fourth of this sum. Such persons we do not expect to please, and 
shall waste no time in trying to. 

ECCS FOR HATCHING. 

Of the thousands of eggs we sent out, most of them hatched 
well; and when they did not, it was not the fault of the eggs, as we 
know by a sure test we have, that the average number of fertilized 
eggs sent from our yards in 1882 was eleven out of every thirteen. 

HEALTH. 

Our fowls have enjoyed good health during the year, have attended 
strictly to business, and given us an unprecedentedly large number of 
eggs. We have given them the best of care, and they have repaid us 
for our trouble at the rate of about five dollars per head 

CRASS. 

During the season from April to November, they have eaten over 
600 bushels of grass, cut into lengths of about three-fourths of an 
inch. Grass is natural food for fowls ; give them plenty of 
it when in confinement, and they will thrive and do well : deprive 
them of it, and you will wonder why you get so few eggs, 

CHICKENS. 

We have raised about 500 young birds, which promise well for 
another year. 

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HOW MANY EGGS IN A SITTING. 

Sometimes parties write us, asking how many eggs in a sitting. 
In reply, we say that thirteen hens' and nine ducks' eggs make a sit- 
ting. Turkeys' eggs are sold by the dozen. 




REFERENCES. 



A few times during the year, persons at a distance, before send- 
ing us their orders, ask for "references." To all such we say write to 
any of our patrons in this Catalogue, or to the Editor of the West- 
ern Rural, Chicago, or to the Rev. Arthur Edwards, Editor of the 
Northwestern Christian Advocate, No. 57 Washington Street, 
Chicago. 



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POULTRY IS KING. 

Some people seem to think that (to use a slang phrase) the poul- 
try business is "small potatoes," "few in a hill," etc., and sneer at 
and laugh about it. This conduct on their part only shows their 
ignorance of the growing industries of the age. Mr. Burn ham in 
his "Fowls and Eggs for Market," says: "The census of 1870 dis- 
closes the facts that the United States produced: 
336,000,000 Dollars worth of Hay. 



288,000,000 
155,000,000 
145,000,000 
398,000,000 
500,000,000 



Wheat. 

Cotton. 

Dairy Products. 

Cattle, Sheep and Swine. 

Poultry. 




" It is estimated that the annual cotton crop of the United States 
is about 4,000,000 bales, worth about $100 per bale; this would be 
$400,000,000." The poultry product is over $500,000,000 annually. 
Surely, Poultry is King. Sneering gentlemen please, with due rever- 
ence, uncover your heads and remain standing, while the cocks crow 
and the hens lay. 



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j I Our orders for fowls far exceeded our ability to supply, but we 

hope the time is not far distant when we can supply our large and 
still growing demand for choice stock. At present writing, Dec. 15, 
we have already booked several orders for eggs for 1883. This is only 
a straw, but it indicates that we may expect a very large demand for 
eggs the coming year. We shall try in every way possible to please 
our customers, and give them value received in every instance. 

THANKS TO PATRONS. 

Just here, and before we forget it, we wish to thank our patrons 
for 1882 for their liberal patronage, and also for their good wishes and 
words of encouragement for 1883. 

LADY CORRESPONDENTS. 

Among our patrons and correspondents we number over one hun- 
dred and fifty ladies, many of whom are making a nice living by rearing 
poultry. 




EGGS GATHERED. 

The greater part of the year we have gathered over three thou- 
sand eggs per month: 

EATING EGGS. 

The lowest price we received for eggs for eating during the year 
was twenty-five cents, and the highest price fifty cents per doz. This 
may seem an exorbitant price, and perhaps a mystery to our rural 
readers, who can only get from eight to sixteen cents per dozen. But 
there are ways of conducting the poultry business to obtain these 
prices. This cannot be done by the shiftless, but only by the active, 
energetic and persevering poulterer. 

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OPENINGS. 



There are at the present time five hundred openings for just such 
poultry men, whose people are willing to pay the above prices. Of 
course, parties must have certain facilities, and understand to some 
extent, the poultry business, or else seek the desired information from 
those who have had the experience, and can tell them at once how to 
proceed to secure these prices. 

VISITORS. 

During the summer months of l882we have had visitors who came 
over three hundred miles especially to inspect our poultry yards. Their 
universal verdict was, they never saw such a nice location, such sys- 
tem and order, so many varieties, such nice birds, and such care as 
we take of them. Of course, it is gratifying to us to have our visi- 
tors pleased, and their anticipations realized, and we hope that during 
1883 we shall receive ten visitors to where we did one in 1882. 

I ASSURANCE TO PATRONS. 

We assure our patrons and friends that nothing on our part shall 
be wanting to still merit their patronage and confidence, and when 
anything received from us is not satisfactory, it is only necessary to 
apprise us of the fact to have it corrected. 

INVITATION. 

Before we close this somewhat lengthy article, we extend a cor- 
dial invitation to every one who takes an interest in choice poultry, 
to visit Summit Lawn Poultry Yards, not only to see the poultry, but 
to feast your eyes on the growing crops, consisting of 2,500 cabbages, 
100 bushels of carrots, 100 bushels of parsnips, 30 bushels of onions, 
one ton of oats, and one and a half tons of millet— all on two and a 
half acres; also to shake by the hand, 

Yours most respectfully, 

K. B. MITCHELL 



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FEEDING THE FOWLS. 




Mr. Walter Abbs, a young man of sixteen years of age, has taken 
care of our fowls the past year. He takes a wheelbarrow full of grain, 
and, following the walk, passes from one pen to the other, until the 
whole fifty-four pens are served. Water is next in order, the vessels 
being washed and rinsed clean. At ten o'clock green food is given. 
At four o'clock p. m.,the eggs are gathered, and each one marked with 
a lead pencil as taken from the pen, then placed in a basket and taken 
to the egg room in the fowl-house, where each one is washed and 
stamped, and placed in its proper place, to be shipped. Egg room did I 
say? Yes! I wonder if any of our patrons ever were in a poulterer's 
egg room; ill not, we will tell you about ours. 



OUR EGG ROOM 

Is in the second story of our poultry-house, and is 12x16 feet. On the 
north, east, and south sides of it is a broad shelf 2J feet from the floor, 
and thirty inches wide ; all around on this shelf on the sides next the 
building, are placed baskets, holding about six dozen eggs each, plain- 
ly marked P. Kock, White Leghorn, etc., and only one kind of eggs 
are allowed in each basket. Young Mr. Abbs, after washing the eggs 
in tepid water, dries them with a towel, then stamps them with a rub. 
ber stamp as follows: for White Leghorn he stamps W. L. ; for Black 
Cochin, Black C; for Buff Cochin, Buff C, and so on. Each basket 
is methodically arranged, and has its particular place, and no matter 
how dark the night may be, we can, without a light, put our hands on 
any variety wanted. 

On the west side of the room, and 2 J feet from the floor, is a 
frame, eight feet long by two feet wide, across which is stretched a 
piece of fish netting of one inch mesh; this is to lay the eggs on to 
drip after being washed. Next in the room is a base-burning coal 
stove, to keep us warm while packing the eggs for shipment during 
the cold evenings of March and April ( all our packing is done in the 
evening). In 1882 we commenced shipping eggs in March, and for 
over three months, every night in the week (except Sundays ), we re- 
quired from two to three persons to select and pack for shipment from 
seven till eleven o'clock. We shall esteem it a pleasure to show our 
egg room to all who Lave a desire to see it. 

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GREEN FEED. 

In the spring, as soon as the ground was dry, we sowed one-half 
acre of oats. When these were six inches high, we commenced cutting 
them into lengths of three-quarters of an inch with a cutting box, and 
fed our fowls four bushels per day until July 6th, when we cut the 
entire crop of oats in a perfectly green state, and cured them for win- 
ter food for the fowls. Immediately we again ploughed the same land, 
and sowed it to millet, and in a few weeks this was large enough to 
cut up, which we did, and feed to the fowls the same as the oats. Be- 
fore frost came, we cut this millet in a perfectly green state, and also 
cured it for green food during the winter. We now changed our pens 
on to new ground, and ploughed up where the pens had been, and 
sowed it to rye Aug. 21st, and by Oct. 1st this was large enough, and 
(as frost does not injure rye) we- continued to cut this for green feed 
until winter set in, December 1st. Between the curing of the oats 5 
July 6th, until Sept. 1st, when the millet was large enough to cut, we 
used for green feed grass cut from our lawn. We fed the green food 
in the morning at ten o'clock, two bushels, and in the afternoon at 
three o'clock, two bushels. 



ROOTS. 

We commenced Sept. 1st, to cook vegetables for our fowls, and 
from that time to the present, we have daily (except Sundays) boiled 
for them one-half bushel carrots, one-half bushel parsnips, six quarts 
onions and onion tops, and from two to four cabbages, adding a hand- 
ful of fine salt. What is boiled one day is fed the next morning while 
warm. We take half of a flour barrel, with a tight bottom, and dip 
the cooked vegetables into it from the kettle. The water, which is 
somewhat dirty, is thrown away. We then take a common garden 
spade or shovel, and chop the vegetables fine. We now put twenty 
quarts each of corn meal and wheat bran into the kettle, then add the 
vegetables; also one tablespoonful of cayenne pepper, one pint of 
powdered charcoal, and a pint of finely pulverized oyster shells, and 
mix thoroughly. The juice from the vegetables will moisten the mash 
sufliciently for the health of the fowls. This fed to fowls daily, is 
greatly relished by them, and is very healthful, and not likely to over 
fatten them. A few pounds of refuse meat from the butcher shop is 
very desirable, besides being a great help to egg production. 



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REPORT FOR 1882. 



During 1882 our average number of laying hens was about three 

hundred. 

RECEIPTS. 

Eggs sold for hatching $1,113.67 

Eggs sold for eating 255.86 

Fowls sold 455.50 

Fowls used in family 10.00 

Total cash receipts 11,835.03 

ASSETS ON HAND, JAN. I, 1883. 

400 choice young fowls, $2 each $ 800.00 

50 bushels parsnips, at 30c. per bushel 15.00 

20 bushels carrots, at 50c. per bushel 10.00 

20 bushels onions, at 50c. per bushel 10.00 

3 bushels beans, at $2 per bushel 6.00 

1,500 cabbages 40.00 

2^ tons choice hay, (which we will cut fine and cook) 20.00 

Total assets $2,736.03 

EXPENSES. 

Grain of all kinds $356.50 

Animal food : 50.00 

Boy, twelve months, at $15.00 per month ! 180.Q0 

Packing eggs to ship 49.00 

Baskets to pack eggs in 20.00 

100 coops to ship fowls in 25.00 

Ploughing, cultivating and sowing 27.00 

Cultivating roots, etc. 100.00 

Grain and seeds 9.00 

Fuel, to warm poultry houses 25.00 

2 tons gravel 3.00 

J ton oyster shells ; 5.00 

Postage : 50.00 

Total expenses $ 899.50 




Leaving us the snug little sum of $1,836.53 
for our oversight of the hennery. 




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REMARKS ON REPORT FOR 1882. 



-We have spent a good deal of time in making out this report, 
that it might be as nearly accurate as possible, and have also given 
everything in detail ; and, on reading it over, we cannot discover that 
we have overlooked a single item, but have rather made liberal allow- 
ance on some things. While we cannot complain of the result, we 
are not satisfied with it, as we ought to have done better, and still 
think we can — by about six hundred dollars. Of course it is gratify- 
ing to us to be able to make as good a showing as this, yet our antici- 
pations are not realized, and, therefore, we look forward to another 
year with great interest, and a determination to climb still higher in 
net results. To accomplish what we have, has required much energy, 
perseverance and labor, and very close watching. The first thing in 
the morning we are among the poultry, and at ten o'clock at night we 
can be seen with a lantern in our hands, stroiliug among the fifty pens 
of fowls, to see if they are comfortable these cold and wintry nights. 
We strive to keep our poultry houses at about 40° temperature during 
the coldest weather, and very seldom it gets below this. 

And now, friends, patrons and readers, we sincerely hope that 
each and every one of you, whether you keep ten, a hundred, or a 
thousand fowls, will be able during 1883, to show a better average per 
hen than we have been able to in 1882. With these remarks, we hand 
you our report for 1882 for inspection and criticism, and sincerely 
hope you will find it interesting enough to pay you for your time in 
perusing it. 



ROOSTS. 






Put your perches all the same height, and not in ladder style. 
Fowls will try to get to the highest perch, and when it gets full, are 
crowded off and fail to the ground, and if they are large and heavy, 
it may injure them. Build your perches from eighteen to thirty inches 
high, about eighteen inches apart, and all of the same height. 



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PIP. 




Persons are constantly writing us, saying their chicks have got 
the pip, and want to know what will cure it. Give your chicks plenty 
of cooked corn meal, made warm with cayenne pepper; also give 
them of onions, chopped fine, all they will eat until cured. 



POULTRY JELLY. 

We are putting up an article to cure scaly legs on fowls. Having 
received so many letters of inquiry how to cure it, we have thought 
best to put it up. It is an article we have used, and know it will cure 
it, and keep their legs smooth, if directions are followed. Put up in 
packages, and prepaid to any part of the United States, at 50c. and 
$1.00 per package. 



OUR EXPERIENCE WITH THE PARRY INCUBATOR, WHICH WAS 
ADVERTISED IN OUR CIRCULAR OF 1882. 

To show the confidence Ave had in the incubator when we accept- 
ed the advertisement, we ordered a five hundred egg machine, and 
to make our success in hatching doubly sure, we hired Mr. Parry, the 
inventor and manufacturer, to run it for us. About the middle of 
February last, we turned over to him, for incubation, five hundred of 
our choice eggs. At the end of three weeks, Mr. Parry reported to us, 
as the result of the hatch, one chick, which lived only a few hours. It 
is unnecessary for us to say that we returned the machine. Further 
comments are unnecessary. 




Farmers, if you wa^t cocks or cockerels to introduce fresh blood 
into your flock, we can furnish you at reasonable prices. 



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RUSSIAN SUNFLOWER SEEDS. 




Every one who keeps a dozen or more fowls, should not fail to 
raise a small patch of sunflower seeds for them. They will grow in 
any nook or corner, and need very little attention. Allow only one 
stalk to grow in a place. They yield enormously, give the fowls 
a glossy appearance, and are very healthy for them. Send us fifty 
cents, and we will mail you a pound package, prepaid. 



OUR CHOLERA MEDICINE 

Has now been before the public over one year, and has gained a 
reputation worthy of it. During 1882 we have sent it all over the 
country, and we are constantly receiving letters speaking in the high- 
est terms of its curative qualities, and saving their flocks from the 
ravages of this fatal disease. We have room to insert only a few 
testimonials, which please read. Then if you want to save your fowls, 
we shall be pleased to receive your orders. For prices, we refer you 
to another page of this catalogue. 




ONE MAIN CAUSE OF ROUP. 

Fowls in huddling in too close quarters, become very warm; their 
bodies throw off a very obnoxious gas; arid by breathing this impure 
air, over and over again, together with the effluvia arising from their 
droppings, they become weak and exhausted, and when they leave 
their quarters at daylight, in this weak and exhausted state, and come 
in contact with the colder morning air, they become chilled, take 
cold, and soon begin to sneeze, which is the warning to the keen-eyed 
poultryman that his fowls have the roup coming on, but if attended 
to at once, can be prevented. To cure them, and prevent its recurrence 
in the future, keep them indoors, away from drafts of wind, for a few 
days. Give them larger and better ventilated and warm sleeping 
apartments, and the trouble will not occur again. 



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POULTRY BOOKS. 

For sale at publishers' prices: 

Standard of Excellence, Price $1.00 

Corbin on Plymouth Rocks, -.'■*■-- " .75 

Stoddard's Egg Farm, - - < - - - - ." .75 

L. Wright on Poultry, - - - - - " 2.00 

Remit the amount, and we will mail any one of the above books, 
postage prepaid. 




LIME. 



Get a barrel of lime, and let it air-slack. Scatter occasionally 
about the fowl-house and runs. It is a great absorbent of dampness, 
removes bad .odors, keeps off vermin, tends to keep everything sweet 
and clean, and is very healthy for the fowls. 



TAR PAPER. 



Cover your fowl-house with tar paper on the inside. It keeps 
out every particle of wind, and vermin can't endure it. In no other 
way can you make your house so warm and comfortable, and do it so 
cheaply. Most hardware dealers keep the tar paper in stock, but in 
case they do not, if you will write us, we will purchase and forward 
it to you. It comes in rolls, from fifty to sixty pounds, and costs 
from 2Jc. to 2|c. per pound. It goes as freight any distance. 



Beer guzzlers! Bead, reflect and reform. The money that it takes 
to buy a keg of beer would buy you an acre of rich land in the far 
West, on which you can raise 200 fowls annually 




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BE PARTICULAR. 



| Some persons sign their names so hurriedly in their letters, that 

it is next to impossible to make them out. Others omit the County, 
and still others omit the State, and a very few omit to sign their 
names altogether, and, of course, all these omissions cause trouble. 
Please be very particular to sign your Name, Postoffice, County and 
State very plainly. 



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COPY OF LETTERS. 



I have to keep a copy of all my letters, so please do not send me 
a postal card, and request a reply on it. And as my receipts of letters 
of inquiry average thirty to sixty per day, you will see the necessity 
of enclosing a three-cent stamp, if you want a reply. 



EXPRESS COMPANIES. 



I shall ship eggs from Chicago in 1883. Can ship by American, 
United States, Adams, Pacific, and Baltimore & Ohio or any other 
Express Companies. In ordering, please state which company you 
wish the goods sent by. 



A gentleman being called upon, while visiting at a friend's, to 
"say grace" at the table, was very much confused, not being a " pro- 
fessor," yet he thought he would not decline, so he accepted the 
situation and commenced, "O Lord, we thank thee, we are much 
obliged to thee. Yours respectfully, Amen." 



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BLACK COCHIN COCK. 








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Black Cochins are one of the most beautiful breeds we keep. 
Their rich, green, glossy, jet black color makes them a general favor- 
ite. They are good layers of large-sized dark-colored eggs, and are 
as hardy as any other breed. They are not as much inclined to sit 
as some others of the Cochin family, and are more easily broken up 
when the fever overtakes them. We can recommend them for all pur- 
poses. We shall, breed from four yards this season. 

Yard No. 1.— Is Ward's strain, and presided over by cock Kalkalua. With 
him are some choice hens and pullets, and we feel assured they will throw 
some very choice stock. Eggs, per sitting $3.00 



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Yard No. 2.— Is made up of good liens and pullets., mated to a choice cocker- 
el, Kalkalua ,2dJ; and we say to those who want to raise Black Cochins* 
give this yard a trial, and we know yon will be pleased. Eggs, per 
sitting $2.00 

Yard No. 3.— Is composed of eight hens and pullets of excellent quality, and 
is presided over by a very fine cockerel from that veteran breeder, Philan- 
der Williams, Esq. Any yard presided over by a cockerel from Mr. Wil- 
liams' yard, is sure to produce nice chicks. Eggs, per sitting $2.50 

Yard No. 4.— Is made up of pullets and hens of A No. 1 quality, and mated 
with a beautiful cockerel from the world-renowned yards of R. M. Rosen- 
crans. This yard is hard to beat, and we think the matings will prove a 
great success. Eggs, per sitting $3.00 

One sitting from each of the above yards in one order. $8.00. 



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Buff Cochins are of a beautiful buff color, and probably as much 
admired as any a of the Cochin family. They show to good advantage ; 
are good winter layers, ear] y sitters, and good mothers. They are 
docile, easily kept in confinement, and are becoming very popular. 
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Yard No. 1.— Contains eight hens and a cock of our choicest selection. Eggs, 
per sitting » , . ,$3.00 

Yard No. 2.— Has eight choice pullets of rich deep buff c lor, mated with n 
fine cock nut related to the females. Eggs, per sitting $2.50 

Yard No. 3. — Contains eight liens and a splendid cockerel. Eggs, per 
sitting $2.00 

Yard No. 4. — Has four hens and four pullets, all good buff color, and well 
mated. Eggs, per sitting, $2.00; or two sittings for $3.00 

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They are the largest of the Cochin family, are of good shape, 
good winter and summer layers, breed true to feather, excellent sit- 
ters and mothers, and are very hardy. They bear confinement as well 
as any other breed, and are becoming very popular. They are very 
docile, and easily confined, seldom getting over a three-foot fence. 
We consider them one of our choicest breeds. We shall breed from 
five yards this season. 

Yard No. 1.— Includes ten fine hens and a choice cock, selected by Mr. Por- 
terfield himself, expressly for our yards. Eggs, per sitting $3.0< 



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Yard No. 2.— Is made up by selecting ten choice pullets from our own hatch- 
ing of 1881, and in no way related to Yard Xo. 1. At the head of this yard 
is a fine cock of 1880 hatch, but of no relation to his mates. This pen will 
be prized on account of introducing fresh blood. Eggs, per sitting. . .$2.50 

Yard No. 3.— Contains five hens and five pullets, mated to a cock from Pierce 
Brothers' strain. There is no relation between cock and hens of this yard, 
and of course their progeny will be very strong and healthy. Eggs, per 
sitting $2.50 

Yard No. 4. — Contains ten choice pullets, mated to a cock from W. S. Jones' 
strain. Cock is not related to his mates, and strong and healthy blood exists 
here. Eggs, per sitting $2.50 

Yard No. 5.— Has ten hens and pullets of choice selection, mated to a cock of 
1880 hatch, of Porterfield strain, and are in no way related. Here again is 
good blood, and strong and healthy chicks will be the result. Eggs, per 
sitting $2.00 

One sitting from each of the above yards in one order $10.00 



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We frequently receive orders for fowls, with the request to ship 
them on such a day. This we cannot always do, as our business is now 
so large, that we frequently have orders ahead for a week or ten days 
Please send us your orders, and we will ship at the earliest possible 
moment, and notify by mail a day or two before shipping. 



HENS. 




Keep fresh water before your fowls constantly. 

Sprinkle flour of sulphur in nests of sitting and laying hens. 

Place sitting hens in dark places, where they cannot be disturbed 
bv other fowls. 



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Our White Cochins look exactly like the above cut, are exceed- 
ingly beautiful birds, and are growing in favor and general estimation 
ot the public every day. They are a pure white, very genial in tem- 
perament and easily controlled, as a fence three feet high will confine 
or prevent them from going away from home. They are very hardy, 
good layers of large size pink eggs, and a fine table fowl. They are 
nice feeders and eat much less than the Buffs. We shall breed from 
two pens during the season. 

Yard ;No. 1.— Contains eight beautiful hens, and cock -Pride of the Lawn " a 
most elegant fellow, perfect in style, color and symetrv. and very seldom 
equaled. Eggs, per sitting ' ' S3 m 

Yard Ho. 2.— Is made up of eight choice pullets of beautiful form and shape 
and mated with a fine cock, u Prince."> Eggs, per sitting. . , *q no 



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POULTRY KEEPER. 






A Complete and Standard Guide to the 



MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY, 



FOR DOMESTIC FSE, THE MARKETS, OR EXHIBITION 



By L. WRIGHT. 



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CONTENTS. 



SECTION I.— The General Manage- 
ment of Domestic Poultry with a 
View to Profit. 

Chap. 1.— Houses and Runs; and the appli- 
ances necessary to keeping Poultry with 
success. 

Chap. II.— On the System of Operations 
and the Selection of Stock . 

Chap. III.— The Feeding and General Man- 
agement of Adult Fowls. 

Chap. IV.— Incubation. 

Chap. V.— The Rearing a>id Fattening of 
Chickens. 

Chap. VI.— Diseases of Poultry. 

SECTION II.— The Breeding and Ex- 
hibition of Prize Poultry. 

Chap. VII. — Yards and accommodation 
ada ted for Breeding Prize Poultry. 

Chap. VIII.— On the Scientific Principles 
of Breeding, and the Effects of Crossing. 

Chap. IX.— On the Practical Selection and 
Ca e of Breeding Stock, and the Rearing 
of Chickens for Exhibition 

Chap. X.— On ''Condition," and the Prepa- 
ration of Fowls for Exhibit on; and vari- 
ous other matter > connected with Shows. 

SECTION III.— Different Breeds of 
Fowls ; their Characteristic Points 
with a Comparison of their Merits 
and Principal Defects. 



Chap. XL— Coe in China- or Shanghaes. 

Chap. XII —Brahma Pootras. 

Chap. XIII.— Malays. 

Chap. XIV— Game. 

Chap. XV.— Dorkings. * 

Chap. XVI.— Spanish. 

.Chap. XV I.— Hamburghs. 

Chap. XVI II.— Polands. 

Chap. XIX. -French Breeds. 

Chap. XX.— Bantams. 

Chap. XXI.— The "Various" Class. 

SECTION I V.— Turkeys, Ornamental 
Poultry, and Water-Fowl. 

Chap. XXII.— Turkeys, Guinea-fowl, Pea- 
fowl. 
Chap. XXIIL— Pheasants. 
Chap. XXIV.— Water-fowl. 

SECTION V.— The Hatching <fc Rear- 
ing of Chickens Artificially. 

Chap. XXV— The Incubator and its Man- 
agement. 

CHAP.XXVI.-Rearing Chickens Artificially. 
SECTION VI. — The Breeding and 

Management of Poultry upon a 

Large Scale. 

Chap. XXVII— Separate Establishments 
for Rearing Poultry. Poultry on the 
Farm, Conclusion. 



PRICE, POSTPAID, $2.00. 



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WHITE FACED BLACK SPANISH. 





Summit Lawn Strain. 



The above fowls are very graceful and active, and jet black in 
color, combs of a very bright red, and in the cocks firm, large and 
erect, eyes of dark brown, clear and bright. The white face and ear 
lobes, their principal feature, are of pure white, and resemble white 
kid, finely dressed. They are non-sitters, lay large white eggs, arid 
are a good table fowl. Their general appearance is very handsome 
and aristocratic, and they are greatly admired. We shall breed from 
two pens this season. One pen of McMillan's strain, and one pen of 
Turpenning's strain. Eggs, per sitting, from either pen, $2.50, or one 
sitting from each pen in one order. $400. 



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GLASS HEN EXHIBITION 



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Hatching Chickens. 

T/ie Original, Most Successful and Complete in the World. 



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READ! READ! READ! 

Chicago, Dec. 11, 1882. 
To whom it may concent : 

The undersigned say they know well 
the members of the firm of Axford & 
Bro., their place of business, and have 
seen the National Incubator, manufac- 
tured by them, in operation in all kinds 
of temperature, successfully hatching- 
chickens; and wish to say in particular, 
that we saw it (the 400 eggs size,with Ho. 
2 heater) in operation in their barn Dec. 
8, 1882, maintaining the proper degree of 
heat on the eggs, without any other fire 
in the place; also, that ice was formed in 
large quantities around the lower edges 
of the oven, arising from the condensed 
vapor escaping from the same; the tem- 
perature of the air outside being on that- 
day 10 to 15 degrees below zero, the eggs 
hatching out two days later, viz.: Dec. 
10th, 1882. The operation of turning the 
eggs was completed in three minutes. 



2 BABYS SET UP. 

Holds 300 Eggs. 



PRICE, 



J. D. SMITH, 
T.A.WAGGENER, 
H.W. AXFORD. 



Seal. 

Seal. 
Seal. 



GOLD MEDAL AWARDED 

Axford's National Incubator, 

At TORONTO EXHIBITION, 1879. 
40 Public Exhibitions ! 

179 Chicks out of 180 Eggs! 

Self-Regulating, Durable, Practical and Easily 
Understood. Will Hatch where none other will, 
Need not " regulate a room'" to insure success. 

Address: AXFORD & BRO., Chicago, 111. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 
twelfth day of December, A. D. 1882. 

GEORGE PETERSON, 
[Notarial Seal.] Notary. 

Plans given of our new Brooders, which 
can be made very cheap. 

R. Burchardt, Denver, Col., says, "Your 
Bell is wonderful ! I would not be 
without it." 

Buy the original Incubator, the "Ax- 
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The plumage of the cock is a silvery white, comb bright red and 
small, wattles and ear lobes brilliant red, breast black— or black 
slightly mottled with white; tail small, upright and well spread, and 
m color black; legs large, strong and well covered with soft feathers. 
Ihe hen is of a beautiful steel gray, and very handsomelv pencilled. 
Ihey are beautiful birds, and possess many good qualities— good lay- 
ers and mothers, a good table fowl, become very tame, are great pets, 
and easily kept in confinement. 



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DARK BRAHMAS -Continued. 

We shall breed from four yards this season. 

Yard No. 1.— Porterfleld's strain; has ten finely-pencilled hens and pullets, and 
is presided over by a very fine cock, direct from D. A. Porterfleld's yards. 
Eggs, per sitting $2.00 

Yard No. 2. — Contains eight fine hens and pullets, mated to a beautiful cock- 
erel from the celebrated yards of H. A. Mansfield. Their progeny will be 
hard to beat. Eggs, per sitting $3.00 

Yard No. 3.— At the head of this yard is an extra choice cock, from the yards 
of Albert French, whose stock needs no comments, as it is known the world 
over. His associates are selected birds, and those who want to raise show 
birds must not forget this yard. Eggs, per sitting $3.00 

Yard No. 4.— This is an A No. 1 yard of ten hens and puilets, at the head of 
which is a splendid cock from W. H. Todd. The name of Todd is enough 
to recommend this yard, and we have fears that we may not be able to sup- 
ply the demand. Eggs, per sitting $2.50 

One sitting from each of the above yards in one order $8.00 



One Monday, Mr. John B. Teasdale sent us an order for eggs, and 
as he did not get them on the following Thursday, he sent us the fol- 
lowing, which we think is too rich to keep to ourselves : 

Mineral Point, Wis., June 16, 1881. 

Say — You Old Feather Legs: 

Last Monday I sent you $1.00 for eggs — am wondering why I 
don't hear that you got the "Scads." Hurry up them ar eggs. 

John B. Teasdale. 



To which we sent the following reply : 

Chicago, Ills., June 21, 1881. 
Shanghai: 

Your eggs were shipped yesterday. 

Feather Legs. 



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LIGHT BRAHMAS. 





Fe!ch Strain. 

I shall breed from five yards of Light jSrahmas this season : 

Yaed No. 1. — Will be presided over by Cock Triumph of Troy. Scores 95 points. 
Pedigreed, has taken several first and special premiums, mated with eight choice 
hens, scoring from 88 to 93 points. The sire of Triumph of Troy sold for $50. 
Price of Eggs, per sitting §3. 00 

Yaed No. 2. — Cock Delta Boy, mated to six choice hens ; all pedigreed . Prioe of 
Eggs, per sitting ,. $2 . 50 

Yaed No. 3. — At the head of this yard is Cock Major Comey — Duke of York strain. 
Is a beautiful bird, and has eight elegant wives. This strain is too w r ell known 
to need any extended remarks. Eggs, per sitting $2 . 50 

Yaed No. 4. — Is made up of eight choice hens and pullets, and presided over by 
Cockerel Felch, sired by " Triumph of Troy.'' This is a very fine pen and will pro 
duce some elegant chicks. Eggs, per sitting 8"2.50 

Yaed No. 5. — Contains some fine hens and pullets, and is presided over by Cockerel 
" Natick." There is good blood in this pen, and we expect many of their chicks 

will be prize winners. Price of Eggs, per sitting $2.00 

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M thereafter yon will lie our Steady Customers. 



JY*K- Fair bank & wo* 

ST. LOUIS. CHICAGO. NEW YORK. 

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WHITE LEGHORNS. 




Summit Lawn Strain. 



Our White Leghorns for 1883 cannot be excelled by any breeder 
in America. The cocks are of fine symmetry and well developed. Their 
appearance is nobby and stylish in the extreme, and are beautiful to 
look at. The hens are of good size, with beautiful lop combs, and 
are just such birds as any one may be proud of. They breed true, 
are great layers of good sized white eggs, and are non-sitters. They 
bear confinement well, are small eaters, very sprightly, and their eggs 
hatch remarkably well. We shall breed from four choice yards. 
Eggs, per sitting $2.00. 



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Head carefully the advertisement of Messrs. N. K. Fairbank & 
Co. This is one of the largest and oldest houses in this line in Chi- 
cago. They commenced business some twenty years ago, and have 
kept increasing until their goods are now in all the known markets of 
the world. They make refined lard a specialty, and put it up in ail 
manner of style and size of packages, from a half pint cup to a tierce 
of three hundred pounds. They pride themselves on the purity of 
their goods, and caution the public against buying lard put up by 
irresponsible parties, which contains from ten to thirty per cent of 
water. They guarantee all their goods strictly pure. Ask your gro- 
cer for Fairbank's Refined Lard, and take no other. 



Quote this at the breakfast table: If we can't count our chickens 
before they are hatched, we can eat them. 



Hens will not eat their eggs if you give them a dark nest to 
lay in. 



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A DRUNKARD'S WiLL. 

First, I leave to society a ruined character, a wretched example, 
and a memory that soon will rot. 

Secondly, I leave to my parents, the rest of their lives, as much 
sorrow as humanity, in a feeble, decrepit state, can sustain. 

Thirdly, I leave to my brothers and sisters, as much mortification 
and injury as I well could bring upon them. 

Fourthly, I leave to my wife a broken heart, a life of wretched- 
ness and shame, to weep over my premature death. ^| 

Fifth, I give and bequeath to each of my children, poverty, igno- 
rance, low character, and a remembrance that their father was a 
drunkard. 





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We have bred Brown Leghorns for several years, until we have 
got the strain to please us, and from this date will be known as " Sum- 
mit Lawn Strain." They breed very true, are good layers, non-sitters, 
and mature early. They are very active, always on the lookout for 
enemies, good foragers, small eaters, and good on the table. They 
are very popular, well liked, and will lay as many eggs as any other 
breed. We shall breed from four yards. 

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WHOLESALE 

DRUGGISTS i IMPORTERS, 

220 & 222 Randolph St., S. E. Cor. Franklin, 
CHI C^O-O. 

Pure Essential Oils, Select Powdered Drugs 

Standard Pharmaceutical Preparations, 

Foreign and American Proprietary Medicines, &c. 




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PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 




Summit Lawn Strain. 

The above cut is a true representation of Summit Lawn 
strain of Plymouth Eocks. These birds were mated by the world- 
renowned poultry judge, B. N. Pierce, Esq. Every bird has yellow 
legs and beaks, scores high, and is beautifully and evenly marked. 
We shall breed from four pens this season. 

Yard No. 1. -Contains eight hens, and cock "King of the Lawn,- all as fine 
birds as any one wishes to see. Eggs, per sitting 53.00 

Yard No. 2.— Contains six hens and a fine cockerel, all finely marked E^s 
per sitting J| s * 

Yard No. 3.-IIas five hens and four pullets, and cock to match all choice 
birds. Eggs, per sitting $200 

Yard No. 4.— Contains four pullets and four hens, and a splendid cock E w 
per sitting, $2.00 ; or two or more sittings at $1.-50 per sitting. 




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We ask your attention to the Wholesale Drug House of Messrs. 
Fuller & Fuller, advertised in our columns. This house commenced 
business some thirty years ago, and by close attention to business, 
square dealing and low prices, have grown and prospered until they 
have become one of the largest houses in the United States. There 
is not an article in the drug or chemical line that cannot be had at this 
house. This is one of the lions of our city, and no one should visit Chi- 
cago, without seeing the immense establishment. It is six stories high, 
besides the basement; 50 feet front by 180 feet deep, and well lighted 
on three sides. It is a model of neatness and order, and every me- 
chanical device for handling goods, that the proprietors could think 
of, has been brought into play. The establishment is warmed by steam 
throughout. It has seven fire-proof vaults, 10x12 feet, in which the 
more valuable goods are kept. They employ about 140 persons, and 
ship daily a large amount of goods. Their first floor or salesroom is 
magnificent, finished in walnut and oil, and contains desk room for 
about 40 clerks, who are polite, courteous and obliging. The writer 
has been acquainted with the proprietors, Messrs. O. F. and H. W. 
Fuller, about 20 years, and it is a pleasure for us to say that we never 
knew of a case where parties, who bought goods of them once, but 
were so well pleased with them, that they always returned for more 
It is useless for us to say anything farther, for it is impossible for us 
to do the establishment justice. It must be seen to be appreciated, 
and the Messrs. Fuller extend a hearty welcome to all who wish to see 
the Mammoth Drug House of the Northwest. R B. MITCHELL. 



WARM POULTRY HOUSE. 

It is a pleasure to us to go into our poultry house these cold morn- 
ings, when the mercury is twenty-five degrees below zero, and the wind 
blowing a gale, to find our fowls warm, comfortable, and enjoying 
themselves. The water seldom skims over in their drinking cups. 

How do we keep them so comfortable? Our fowl-house is 134 
feet long, and 24 feet wide. In the east end we have a hot air furnace, 
and in the west end a large stove, in both of which we burn hard coal. 
In each of these on cold nights, we build a good fire, and this is the 
way it is done. Please remember that your humble servant, the pro- 
prietor, looks after the fire himself, &nd does not trust it to his help. 

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WHITE'S PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 





Cock, Duke of Englewood. 

We are constantly making additions to our poultry yards. In the 
spring of 1882, we arranged for a pen of very choice Plymouth Rocks 
from Capt. James E. White's best birds, for which we paid him about 
$5.00 each, selected and mated by Mr. White expressly for our yards. 

During 1882 we raised some very choice chicks from Cock, Duke 
of Englewood. We also retain the Duke and his family, and no finer 
birds than the Duke and his progeny can be found in America. We 
have selected and mated with great care from our nicest birds of 1882 
hatch, three pens, and hope in the future we shall be able to supply 
the demand. 

We regret to say that we fear the Captain has so much other bus- 
iness to attend to, that he is neglecting his poultry, as we have seen 
birds sent out by him during the past year, that, to say the least, were 
no credit to him. 

Eggs, per sitting $3.00 

.... 2.75 



Yard No. 1. — Duke of Englewood and his family 
Yard No. 2.— " 2d 



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ESTABLISHED 1867. 




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J. W. JINNETTE & CO., 



GENERAL PRODUCE 




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us South Water Street, 



Refer by permission to 

Cook, Phillips & Wells, Wholesale Grocers, Chicago. 
Hide & Leather National Bank, ." 



CHICAGO 



Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Game, Grain, Seeds, 
Dried Fruits, Etc- 

Particular attention paid to fine Dairy Products, Dressed Poultry and Game 

Write for Market Reports and Instructions for dressing poultry, and 

how to ship. Tags and Stencils furnished free. 



We are personally acquainted with Messrs. Jinnette & Co., having known 
them for several years. Their House is located near the head of Dearborn St., 
on South Water, and is one of the best locations in the city. Thousands pass 
their doors daily, seeking all kinds of farm and dairy products, and their sales 
are enormous. They possess unusual facilities for handling all kinds of produce 
They are prompt in all business transactions, have ample capital, and are hon- 
est, hard working men; and if you intrust them with your business, you wilj 
be sure to get quick returns, and be fairly and honestly dealt with. We take 
pleasure in recommending this firm to our readers. Respectfully, 

R. B. MITCHELL. 




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PITKIN'S PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 





Cock, Pitkin's Pride. 

We arranged with Mr. Pitkin, in spring of 1882, to select and 
mate for us ( so as to produce the best results, ) a pen of his celebrated 
Plymouth Rocks. Mr. Pitkin is one of the best Plymouth Rock breed- 
ers in America, and as Summit Lawn Poultry Yards is bound to have 
the very best the country affords, we think it would be incomplete 
without a pen of his mating and selection. 

Mr. Pitkin refused $100 for a Plymouth Rock Cock in the fall of 1881, 
and those who buy eggs from this yard, need not be surprised if they 
raise some $100 birds. 

We raised some very beautiful birds in 1882 from the pen Mr. 
Pitkin mated for us, and we can now boast of as fine birds as ever pip- 
ped the shell. Out of our chicks raised in 1882, we have selected the 
very choicest ones, and shall breed from three yards this season. 

Yard No. 1.— Pitkin's Pride and Family. Eggs, per sitting $3.00 

Yard No. 2.— u il 2d " " 2.75 

Yard No. 3.- " lt 3d " ' l 2.50 




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For 1883 is an Elegant Book of 150 Pages, 3 Colored Plates of 
Flowers and Vegetables, and more than 1000 Illustrations 

of the choicest Flowers, Plants and Vegetables, and Directions for growing- 
It is handsome enough for the Center Table or a Holiday Present. Send on 
your name and postoffice address, with 10 cents, and I will send you a copy, 
postage paid. This is not a quarter of its cost. It is printed in both English 
and German. If you afterwards order seeds deduct the ten cents. VICK'S 
SEEDS AEE THE BEST IK THE WORLD I The FLORAL GUIDE will 
tell how to get and grow them. 

VICK'S FLOWER AND VEGETABLE GARDEN", 175 PAGES, 6 
Colored Plates, 500 Engravings. For 50 cents in paper covers; $1.00 m elegant 
cloth. In German or English. 

VICK'S ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE— 32 Pages, a Color' 
ed Plate in every number, and many fine Engravings. Price $1.25 a year; Five 
Copies for $5.00. Specimen numbers sent for 10 cents; 3 trial copies for 25 cents- 

JAMES TICK, Rochester, N. Y. 



We call particular attention to the advertisement of Mr. James 
Vick, of Rochester, N Y. This is one of the oldest and most reliable 
flower, bulb and seed houses in this country. It was through the en- 
ergy and perseverance of Mr. Vick, that bulbs, seeds and plants can 
be sent through the mails at reasonable rates. His flowers, seeds 
and plants cannot be excelled by any house in the world. It you wish 
anything nice, new and beautiful, send for his catalogue, and you 
will be sure to find it. They never send out anything but what is first- 
class, and yon can depend on getting just what you order. 

R, B. MITCHELL. 



The Axford Incubator, which we advertise in this catalogue, is 
a first-class one. We are personally acquainted with Mr. Axford, — 
have examined and tested his machine, and know whereof we speak. 
Last fall we sent him eighty-three fertilized eggs, and he hatched 
out for us seventy-five nice strong healthy chicks. Write to Mr. Ax- 
ford for his circular. He is an honest man, and all our readers can 
rely on what he says. He has all the orders for incubators he can fill, 
and his business is rapidly increasing. R. B. MITCHELL. 




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N. T. Lattin's Strain, 

"We consider the Black Javas a splendid fowl. The above cut rep- 
resents them exactly as they appear in our yards. They are very large, 
erect, and noble looking; very hardy, and seldom, if ever, sick, and 
lay a very large egg. We prize them very highly, and hope soon to 
see them in every man's yard. 

Their color is of a lustrous black, with green shading, which is 
especially desirable. Combs are single and erect; legs black, or tend- 
ing towards willow. They are a good table fowl, and good layers. Some 
consider them preferable to any other breed, not even excepting Ply- 
mouth Rocks. They differ from some other breeds in one important 
respect, and that is, they will breed less culls and more good birds 
than many othervarieties. We shall breed from two pens of very choice 
birds this season. 

Eggs, per sitting $3.00. 



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BROODERS. 




When chickens are hatched by artificial means, it is necessary 
to have a brooder for them, so they can warm themselves whenever 
they wish to. The best method to do this is as follows : For fifty 
chickens use a frame, three feet long by eighteen inches wide, and 
eight inches high, made of one-inch boards. Now take a piece or 
sheet iron and nail over the bottom of the box. Again make a fram- 
two inches wide, of same size as the first box, and attach it to the first 
box under the sheet iron.- Cover the bottom of this two-inch 
frame with another piece of very thin sheet iron, except in 
center of lower sheet iron, where must be left a hole six inches in 
diameter. Now turn the iron bottoms down, and rest each end on 



SAND. 




LAMP. 

Bottom of Brooder. End view. 

bricks, about eight to twelve inches from the ground, just high enough 
to get under a small kerosene lamp. Put gravel or sand atfout one 
inch deep on the upper sheet iron. Light the lamp and place it 
under the brooder, letting the chimney project one-half inch above 
the lower iron bottom. The heat strikes the upper iron bottom, and 
radiates all over the bottom that is covered with gravel, on which the 
chicks will sit and sleep whenever they choose. A small yard is 
^ necessary for the chicks at each end of the brooder, for them to run 
into and exercise, and get the fresh air, and where they can be fed and 
watered. A partition runs through the brooder crosswise, making two 
apartments, each large enough to hold twenty-five chicks. Be careful 
not to raise the wick in the lamp too high, as it may get too hot; just 
a little blaze, is sufficient. Each end of the brooder is made gable 
shape to secure the roof boards that cover the brooder, and carry off 
the water when it rains. The roof is made of two boards, 3^ feet long 
by 12 inches wide, and the ridge of the roof is some &ve inches high- 
er than at the eaves. A little ventilation is necessary in each end, 
under the projections of the roof. 

This brooder is large enough until the chicks are six to eight 
weeks old, and they can then be placed in a larger one, and will not 
need any artificial heat, unless it is very cold. A small light of glass, 
say 3x4 inches, should be placed in the roof of each apartment. 

A little experience will enable any one to raise chickens with this 
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Armstrong's Strain. 

These are very handsome birds, and probably bred as much for 
beauty as anything else. They are non-sitters and good layers ; not 
quite as hardy as some other breeds, yet do nicely if well cared for. 

We shall breed from two yards this season. Our stock is very 
fine, and we are sure that all who see them will want some of their 
eggs and chickens. 

Eggs, per sitting $2.00. 






In feeding young chickens with hard-boiled eggs and bread, re- 
move the crust and rub the bread and egg together between the hands, 
until it is fine ; add no moisture, as the .egg will supply all that is 
necessary. 



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A MINISTER SCANDALIZED. 




A few years since, a minister was made the happy recipient of a 
nice baby. Of course he was very much pleased over the event, and 
told the news to all of his parishioners whom he chanced to meet. 
His congregation, realizing the fact that their minister's expenses must 
naturally increase in proportion as his family increased, thought to do 
the nice thing, and made up a purse and sent it to him. Of course 
the minister was very thankful tor such substantial aid in time of 
need. On the following Sabbath the minister was almost overcome 
while thinking how kindly his congregation had remembered him, 
and in his closing prayer he thanked the Lord for all the blessings 
of life, and also for the little "succor" he had received the past week. 
This would have passed -off well enough had it not happened there 
were some mischievous students in the audience, who, after the ser- 
vices was dismissed, waited in the porch until the minister came out, 
when they asked him which he referred to in his prayer, — the baby or 
the money ! 



A lady wanted her little girl to bathe in a room, the windows of 
which opened into the yard in which were some fowls. "But," said 
the little girl, "I don't want to bathe before the chickens." "Oh, 
never mind the chickens," said the mother. "Well," said the little 
woman, "I won't bathe before the rooster, anyhow." 



Constable Adams, down in Connecticut, is said to be the most 
economical man living. He has recently bought a pair of green 
spectacles for his cow, and is now feeding her on shavings from the 
planing mill. 



RATS IN THE POULTRY HOUSE. 

Last year we put a gun into the hands of the young man who took 
care of our poultry, — gave him plenty of powder and shot, and five 
cents each for all the rats he would kill. His bill amounted to $5.00. 
Let your boys have a little fun. 

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These are natives of America, and originated some seventy or 
eighty years ago. They probably breed more true to color than most 
other breeds. They are exceedingly hardy, mature quite early, fine 
layers, good sitters, and are excellent on the table. Their color is of a 
slaty blue, yellow legs, and rose combs. They are easy to raise, have 
compact bodies, and shortish legs. They are of good size, and their 
plumage resembles the Plymouth Eocks. They can be mated with less 
trouble than the Plymouth Kocks, and by many are thought to be 
more hardy, and require less attention to keep them in health, and 
from this fact they make a good farmer's fowl. We shall breed from 
two choice pens during the season. 

Eggs, per sitting $2.00. 



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Only $1.25 per Year. Only $1.25 per Year. 

It is the best and cheapest Magazine of its kind. Its contributors are the 
most practical breeders, not only in this country, but in England. Beside an 
extensive poultry department, each edition contains a pigeon department, giv- 
ing illustrations of the most popular varieties. Tt is ably edited, and should 
be perused by every pigeon as well as poultry fancier. It is printed on heavy 
book paper, contains latest news, is the most prompt in publication, is hand- 
somely illustrated, in neatness cannot be excelled. 

TRY IT A YEAR. 



Poultry and Agricultural Books for Sale. 

ADDRESS : 

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iP°We will gladly receive Subscriptions for the above excellent Magazine. 

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AMERICAN SEBRICHTS. 





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These fowls have been placed recently before the jHiblic. They 
are a popular variety, and have many admirers. They have real merits, 
and are said to be a good fowl for all purposes. They lay a large-sized 
egg, and as many as most other fowls. They are thought by many to 
be better for the table than any other fowl known. They are good 
sitters and mothers, and are not so broody as some other varieties. 
They are easily raised, hardy, and mature early. They make a go<xl 
fowl for the market, and farmers will be pleased with them. They are 
white and black in color. Their plumage does not fully mature until 
after their first moult. Beaks dark, and legs yellow. Cocks weigh 
from 9 to 9^ pounds, and hens from 7 to 7J pounds. Their plumage is 
very beautiful, and we think they will be in great demand. We shall 
breed from one yard of choice birds. 

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Ai\ pure white, are the largest, and weigh the most to the pair. 
Tiieir feathers cannot be excelled. They are good layers, very hardy, 
and are excellent in every respect. Eggs, per sitting of nine, $1.50; 
Ducks, per pair, $5.00. 



ROSE COM3 WHITE BANTAMS. 





These little beauties are the greatest of pets. They delight in 
being handled, and become very tame. Their plumage is a clear white. 
In the cocks the comb is a beautiful red, double or rose ; red face, and 
red ear lobes; eyes red, bright and full; full sickle tail; neat, small, 
white legs and feet They are very diminutive in size, but proud and 
strutting. Standard weights are, cocks, 26 ounces; hens, 24 ounces. 
Eggs, per Sitting, $2.00. 

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WHITE CRESTED WHITE POLISH. 





Summit Lawn Strain 



The White Crested White Polish are of a pure white and very beau- 
tiful fowls. Some of our visitors say they are the most stylish birds 
we have. They are of medium size, with good sized crests on their 
heads. They are very hardy, breed true to feather, with but few culls, 
and possess all the characteristics of the Polish family. The comb of 
the cock is a bright red, and two-horned, like the letter V in shape. 
They are excellent layers of pure white eggs, small eaters, a good 
table fowl, and with many are great favorites. We shall breed from 
two yards, each containing eight hens and pullets and a splendid cock. 
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CHOLERA TESTIMONIALS. 



Watertown, Dak., Dec. 14, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir: Your fowl cholera medicine does just what we got it 

, for — it stopped the cholera. I had forty-seven hens down with the 

cholera when the medicine arrived. After the first dose I have not 

lost a chicken from the cholera, I had lost forty-two at the rate of 

six or eight a day, until I got your medicine. I shall not do without 

it next year. 

Yours truly, C. A. BARTLETT. 







Tuscola, Ills., Dec. 5, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir : Your card at hand asking how I like your cholera 

medicine. I can readily reply that I like your Cholera Preventive and 

Cure very much, and do not expect to be without it. 

Respectfully yours. NEWTON M. EVANS. 



Office of the District Attorney, 

Woodbury, Gloucester Co., N. J., Dec. 6, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir : Your Poultry Powder proved a good thing to me in 

keeping my imported Silver Sebright and Pekin Bantams in healthy 

trim. I believe it is a valuable remedy. 

Yours truly, B. PERRY. 




Beacon, Iowa, Dec, 21, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir: I received a card from you, asking how I liked the 

Poultry Cholera Preventive and Cure I bought of you. I can say 

that it is what you recommend it to be. 

Respectfully yours, JAMES PLUM. 



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Probably there are no fowls that have a more honest claim to 
personal beauty than the White-crested Black Polish. Their color is 
of a uniform deep black throughout; their crest is full, large and 
regular, well-filled on the crown of the head, and each feather of a 
pure white, "except in front, over the beak, there are a few black feath- 
ers. There is no appearance of comb, but well developed wattles of 
a bright red. The ear lobes are moderate in size and in color white. 
They are non-sitters and great layers of a superior quality of eggs. 
We shall breed from two yards this season. 

Yard No. 1.— Contains eignt very choice liens, and a cock from the best breeder 
in America. Eggs, per sitting 83.00 

Yard No. 2.— Contains four hens and four puiiets of choice selection, mated 
with a fine cock of McClave strain. Eggs, per sitting . . $2.00 




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Westfield, Wis., June 16, 1882. 
R. B. Mitehell, 

Dear Sir: Yours of June 13 received and noted, for which accept 
thanks. I would not wish for more honorable dealings than what 
you have done. 

Most respectfully, W. G. SCOTT. 



Colfax, Iowa, June 18, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir: Out of the twelve White-Crested Black Polish eggs 

received from you, I got ten chicks. 

Respectfully yours, JAMES STEWART. 



Atchison, Kansas, June 5th, 1882. 
R B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir: I got ten nice chicks from the eggs you sent me, for 

which I feel very grateful to you, and shall remember your kindness. 

I hope you will prosper and have a good year, for you are certainly 

entitled to it after dealing so fair by me, and doing more than I asked 

or expected. You will hear from me again. 

Respectfully yours, C. F .SANDERS. 



Steubenville, Ohio, June 11, 188-2. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir: The chickens came safely Thursday morning. I am 
very much pleased with them. I think them the finest of the kind I 
have ever seen. Am sorry you have not got the cock I wanted, and 
if at any time you do have it, please write me. I shall have another 
order before long to send you. Thanking you kindly for your kind- 
ness, I am, very truly yours, 

O W. TETROW. 

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Last season we added to our list of fowls, the "Silver Bearded 
Polish." They have proven to be a very hardy and choice breed, and 
many of our visitors claim they are the most beautiful birds we have. 
They are good layers, good on the table, and a splendid fowl in every 
respect. A flock of them is a beautiful sight on the lawn. They are 
non-sitters. Their beaks are a horn color; eyes, large, full and bright; 
crests quite large, and fall over on either side and behind, in an even 
mass; beard, thick and full; comb like the letter V in shape, and 
small; legs of a slaty blue color; carriage, erect and strutting. Their 
plumage is a silvery white, each feather spangled or laced with black. 

We shall breed from two yards of as choice fowls as the country 

affords. 

Eggs, per Sitting $2.00. 




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Parkersburg, West Va., Sept 4, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir : The basket of eggs reached me Saturday afternoon* 
24 hours from Chicago, upon which the charges were only fifty-live 
cents. Allow me to compliment you upon the splendid manner in 
which you ship eggs. Enclosed I hand you $2.00, for which please 
send me eggs as follows. * * Please accept thanks for your liber- 
al count, and you nfay do it again — "You old feather-legs!" 

Yours truly, R. A. JONES. 



Moline, Ills., April 26, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir: I received the trio of White-Faced Black Spanish 

yesterday, and am well satisfied with them. 

Respectfully yours, FRANK GLUESING. 



Clarinda, Page Co., Iowa, April 25, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir: Am in receipt of the trio of Plymouth Rocks you 

sent me. I am very well pleased with them. For the birds I say — 

thanks. 

Respectfully yours, W. H. MARLEY. 



Wapella, Ills., Mav 13, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir: Out of two sittings of eggs I bought of you, I got 

eight chicks. Would have had more, but one of the hens did not sit 

well, and I lost one sitting. Am well pleased with them, and will want 

two more sittings in a few days. 

Respectfully yours, J. A. HARROLD. 

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The Langshans are a new variety with us. We had so many in- 
quiries for them last season, that we have concluded to keep them this 
year. They very much resemble the Black Cochins, but not quite as 
heavily feathered on their legs. They seem strong and healthy, and 
are one of the coming breeds of fowls. They are growing more pop- 
ular every day, and we have no doubt will please all who take a fancy 
to them. We shall breed from one yard this season, from as good 
birds as can be found in the country. 



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Morris, Ills., June 21, 1882. 
Dear /Sir: The sitting of Plymouth Eocks I got of you hatched 
thirteen chicks, and the White Cochins ten chicks. 

Very respectfully, MATILDA HOGE. 



Benton Harbor, Mich., Dec. 19, 1882. 
B. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir: The Partridge and Buff Cochins came to-day all right. 

I am very much pleased with them. 

Yours very respectfully, S. McCOBD. 



Coxsackie, N. Y., May 8, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir : I received the eggs on Friday, May 5, in good order 
— none of them broken: much obliged. I will let you know the re- 
sult of the hatch. 

Bespectfully yours, FBANK WOBDEN. 



Hazleton, Grant Co., Wis., Aug. 22, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir: I received the eggs all right, and many thanks for 

them. They all hatched, and I now have twelve nice little chicks 

living. 

Bespectfully, J. CBANSTON. 



Peru, Ind., Oct. 30, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir: One of the dark Brahma pullets hatched from the 

eggs I got of you, is a star worth $25.00. 

Yours, W. J. ELYIN. 

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HOUDANS. 




Summit Lawn Strain. 



These are the most hardy, best and popular of any of the French 
varieties. They are good layers of large white eggs, non-sitters and 
a good table fowl. They are very active in foraging, and yet not very 
troublesome on the lawn. They are quite attractive in appearance, 
and therefore have many admirers; in fact, they are one of the best 
varieties known among the non-sitters. The crest upon their heads 
gives them a noble bearing, and they are ever on the alert for hawks 
and other enemies of the poultry yard. 

Our stock is from the best breeders in this country, and the inquiry 
for their eggs is the best evidence that they are growing in favor with 
the public. Send in your orders early, so that you may not be disap- 
pointed in getting them at the time you want them. 

Eggs, per Sitting $2.00. 




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FOR CIRCULARS AND TESTIMONIALS, ADDRESS, 
WILSON BROS., Sole Manufacturers, EASTON, PA. 

Grind your own BONE MEAL and OYSTER mm 

In the $5 HAND MILL. Cir- 
culars free. 

FRANK "WILSON", . 

43 Belaware Street, EASTON, PA. 




Wilson's No. 1 Hand Green Bone Mill. 

Grinds Green or Fresh Bones, right from the butcher, 
with the meat on. This Mill is made in the most durable 
manner possible. The shaft is of steel and the bearings 
and burr of chilled iron. One burr will grind 30 tons of 
bones, and can then be replaced for $1.75. 

PRICE, WITHOUT LEGS, - $15.00 
" WITH IRON LEGS, - 

WILSON BROS., 1 

EASTOfl. PA. 



The Wilson Brothers have gotten np this green bone mill at our special re- 
quest. We have long felt the need of such a mill, and we are to have one of 
their twenty-dollar mills. It is just what every poultryman needs. The Wil- 
son Brothers are honorable, square dealing men. Please give them your orders. 

R. B. MITCHELL. 



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Their plumage is a pure white, beaks yellow, comb bright red, large, 
single, and evenly serrated. Ear lobes and wattles, bright red. The 
tail of the cock is black, and carried so upright as to come almost in 
contact with the head. Sickle feathers, long, quite upright without 
much curve, rich black in color, with an edging of white. Legs, bright 
yellow, very short, smooth, and free from feathers. Carriage extreme- 
ly erect. The hen is of the same plumage. Tail, rather large, black' 
and tolerably upright; legs, same as the cocks. The hens are good 
layers and mothers, and produce as much for their food as other 
breeds. Bantam eggs will tempt the appetite of the invalid, and are 
nicely cooked by breaking them into a saucer, and pouring boiling 
water over them upon the breakfast table. We shall breed from one 
yard of choice birds. 

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Ottawa, Kansas, Sept. 1, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir : I received my White-Crested Black Polish fowls yes- 
terday afternoon in good shape, and am well pleased with them. 

Yours truly, JOHN JENKINS. 



Winnebago City, Faribault Co., Minn., Nov. 20, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir: I got ten Plymouth Bock chickens out of the dozen 
eggs I received from you, and they are all beauties. 

Eespectfully yours, A. BUTTEBFIELD. 



Koogle, Ohio, Nov. 25, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir : Beceived the light Brahmas in good order, and they 

are nice. Wishing you success, I am, yours respectfully, 

S. A. WAGNEB. 



Bochester, Mich., Dec. 16, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir : I received the Plymouth Bocks the 14th inst. all O. K. 

They fill the bill exactly. 

• Yours truly, JOHN L. P. SIPPEBLEY. 




Taylorville, Ills., Jan. 17, 1882. 
R. B. Mitchell, 

Dear Sir : I received those White-Faced Black Spanish eggs the 

22d of May. They have hatched twenty chicks. All doing well. I 

am very much pleased with them. 

Bespectfully yours, MBS. V. A. BAKEB. 



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Bantams of all varieties are great pets with both old and young. 
In the Golden, the ground color is a rich golden yellow, and around 
each feather is a clear black line. They are beautiful birds, and yery 
small, — the cock weighing 28 ounces, and the hen 24 ounces. The 
cocks are without sickle feathers, or what are called hen-tailed. They are 
very proud, and strut around with an air of importance not seen in 
other varieties. They are gamy, and will attack the largest fowl with 
the utmost impudence. They are rose-combed, with a neat spike be- 
hind. Bantams are good layers, splendid sitters and mothers, and lay 
a large egg in proportion to the size of the bird. We shall breed from 
two yards this season. 

Eggs, per Sitting of 13, from either yard $2.00. 



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These are a tiny breed of the Black-Breasted lied Game fowls. 
They are very prolific in eggs, excellent sitters and mothers. They 
are very active, neat and trim, and like all other varieties of Bantams 
consume a small amount of food. They are round and plump, and are 
delicious on the table. The cock looks sleek and almost like a pheas- 
ant. They have very long sickle feathers, which curve very gracefully 
They like to be petted, and the cock will sit on your finger and crow, 
much to the delight of the children. 

Have two breeding yards from the best stock the country affords 
Eggs, per Sitting, from either yari. „ . ... .$2.00. 



A MYSTERY. 

It is a mystery to a great many of the poultrymen in the north- 
west how we have built up such an extensive business in so short a 
time. Why, friends, that is easy enough. It is just this way: — We 
have let people know what we have for sale, and then filled their or- 
ders from the best stock in the country, and at reasonable prices. 



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Golden. Their characteristics are the same in all respects. Their 
plumage is a pure white, with a black line around each feather. They 
have a rose comb, with a spike behind. Weight of cock, 28 ounces ; 
weight of hen, 24 ounces. Good sitters and mothers, and good layers. 
Very courageous, and will fight a Brahma cock, that weighs twelve 
pounds, as soon as one of their own size. They are very proud, and it 
seems to us, over-estimate their importance. These make Splendid 
pets, and are very useful in the garden, picking up bugs and vermin 
of all kinds, and will do no more harm than so many birds. We shall 
breed from two yards, the best there are in the country. 



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CLOSING REMARKS. 

Another year has rolled around since we had the pleasure of ad- 
dressing a few lines to our friends and patrons. To many, undoubt- 
edly, it has been a year of sorrow and disappointment. Many loved 
ones have been laid beneath the sod, and sore disaster has fallen to 
the lot of others, while some have escaped both sorrow and disap- 
pointment. Whatever may have been your lot, be resigned to it, bear 
it bravely, for all of us are called upon, sooner or later, to bear bur- 
dens that are very grievous. Among those who have had their share 
of burdens to carry, are the writer and his better half. As we have 
correspondents and customers in fifty states, territories and provinces, 
there may be a desire on the part of some/to know a little of our his- 
tory. We were born in Salisbury, Connecticut, in 1827 ; were "married 
in 1849, and came west in 1861. Six children have been born unto us, 
all of whom lie buried in a beautiful plat of ground in Rosehill Cemetery 
some six miles north-west of Chicago. Two died in infancy, one at 
nine, one at fourteen, and two at twenty years of age. The great Chi- 
cago fire of 1871, burned up our buildings, destroyed our business, and 
together with thousands of others, left us penniless in a burned and 
ruined city. All was taken from us, but courage and health. With 
those as our capital, we again commenced business, and have done the 
best we could under the circumstances. Seven years ago we built us 
a home at Arlington Heights, and have since lived there, going to Chi- 
cago in the morning, and returning at evening. Four years ago we 
commenced the keeping of choice poultry as a pastime, and now our 
sales reach all over the United States, and are extending so rapidly, 
that it even astonishes ourselves. The outlook for business for 1883 
is bright; orders are coming in rapidly, and with light hearts and 
ready hands we enter upon our fourth year, determined to keep pace 
with the ever increasing demand for choice poultry. We are sorry 
again to have to ask our patrons to excuse us for not getting this cat- 
alogue out in January, as promised, but there are many details to look 
after, and as we have to depend on others to a certain extent, we can- 
not always calculate to a certainty. Then again, we promised you 
only sixty pages, whereas we have given you eighty, and yet we are 
not through. We could easily increase it to one hundred, but must 
close, and defer the other twenty pages until 1884 Our oil commis- 
sion business in Chicago, which we have built up since the fire of 1871, 
is quite extensive, our sales in 1882 amounting to over two hundred and 
forty thousand dollars. With this bit of our history, we bid you adieu, 
for 1883, sincerely hoping you will find enough in this our third cat- 
alogue, to repay you for the sum invested. 

May the blessings of health, prosperity and success be your com- 
panions through life, is the wish of yours, most respectfully, 

K. B. MITCHELL. 



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BROOKLYN, WIS., 

November 6th, 1882. 

MR. R. B. MITCHELL, 

DEAR SIR: 

I feel amply repaid for my visit at Sum- 
mit Lawn. I think that your location is elegant and 
particularly adapted to poultry raising* I think 
your poultry houses and yards are the neatest, cheap- 
est, and by far the most convenient I ever saw. Your 
flock contains many rare beauties of high excellence. 
Your fowls show at a glance that they are kindly 
cared for by their condition and docility. I also be- 
lieve you are honest, gentlemanly and obliging to 
your customers, and do all you can to please them. 
I want four to six first class Soudan pullets, and 
perhaps a cock or cockerel. What is the least money 
each that you cav furnish them for? I received the 
"American Standard of Excellence" all right' 

Yours respectfully, 

A. A. MUNGER. 




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INJURED INNOCENCE. 

" I hain't ween numn of yer chickens i 

Do you took me for a thief ? iTo you see 

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